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Methane-Trapping Ice May Have Triggered Gulf Spill
sciencehabit writes with an excerpt from Science that begins: "Methane-trapping ice of the kind that has frustrated the first attempt to contain oil gushing offshore of Louisiana may have been a root cause of the blowout that started the spill in the first place, according to [UC Berkeley] professor Robert Bea, who has extensive access to BP p.l.c. documents on the incident. If methane hydrates are eventually implicated, the US oil and gas industry would have to tread even more lightly as it pushes farther and farther offshore in search of energy."
It still doesn't get down to 259 F in Alaska, the freezing point of methane, even after the resignation of Sarah Palin.
I expect you to be a big boy and find your own citation.
And what if there are none? Say for instance someone pulls something out of their ass, how will someone else find a citation supporting it? No, the one who makes a statement has the responsibility to back it up.
Falcon
Should there be a Law?
If we suddenly awoke tomorrow and petroleum disappeared from the ground, after the sudden earth shattering ground collapses we'd be working on implementing nuclear/solar/wind/ for power, and we'd be implementing another source to make lipstick/plastics/etc.
If we wake up tomorrow and find that oil disappeared from the ground, the best next thing is to go and buy a nice, comfortable coffin. This is because no amount of horses would be sufficient to deliver food from places where it is made to places where it is consumed. Hundreds of millions of city dwellers will be left without food; what do you think will happen next? I think making a new kind of lipstick would be rather a low priority project.