“James” – who was on the oil rig that blew in the Gulf – calls the Mark Levin Show and explains what occurred. Link to listen.
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RUSH: Starting on the phones in Houston, this is Gabrielle, great to have you on the program. Hello.
CALLER: Hello. How are you?
RUSH: Very well. Thank you.
CALLER: Good. Don’t believe that Obama isn’t jumping for joy over this.
RUSH: You’re right.
CALLER: My husband’s a petroleum engineer. We talked about it last night. He may be acting indifferent but they’re jumping up and down.
RUSH: I’m sure.
CALLER: I mean that’s the reason why they haven’t done anything to help. They want the damage to be so extensive that it’s gonna — I won’t be surprised after all this if they actually shut down the Gulf, the drilling completely. It’s the only area which can be drilled in the US, and they’re going to put an end to it.
RUSH: Is that what your husband thinks, too?
CALLER: Yep.
RUSH: So this just came along at an opportune time, Obama doesn’t like oil to begin with, he doesn’t like our dependence on it.
CALLER: That’s exactly right.
RUSH: By the way, if you’re right, what faster way is there to get the price of gasoline up to four bucks?
CALLER: Well, he’s been chipping away at it oil and gas industry for I would say long before he even became the president.
RUSH: Right. And don’t forget the coal industry. He promised to put them out of business.
CALLER: When you had brought up the fact that the layoffs really started right after Obama’s election, that is the truth. My husband’s company laid off 5,000 people, not all of them, but mostly before and during and right after his inauguration.
RUSH: Your husband works for Big Oil?
CALLER: He works for a service company that they do completion drilling.
RUSH: A-ha.
CALLER: Now, they don’t do offshore drilling.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: But, you know, this rig that was out there, it was a massive state-of-the-art rig. It’s unprecedented. I mean they still don’t know what happened. I don’t believe that it’s any kind of sabotage. But I mean if you can imagine this rig, you know, it was actually using GPS positioning right over the hole, it’s not anchored, it’s 5,000 feet from just the rig just to the sea floor. And they were cementing 18,000 feet down.
RUSH: Yeah. Well, it looks, like I said earlier, that the blame is being placed on that safety shutdown valve not working because of the way the cement was poured, and Halliburton poured the cement.
CALLER: Huh?
RUSH: Halliburton poured the cement. You wait, Halliburton’s going to be brought up to Washington for show trials. Democrats have wanted that since the Iraq war. If they can blame this on Halliburton — (laughing) — and say that Cheney somehow approved the project, even as an ex-CEO, oh-ho-ho, they may not even need Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
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RUSH: Okay. So the regime has shut down drilling in the Gulf. But you know who hasn’t shut down drilling? The Russians are drilling in a deal with the Cubans in the Gulf. The Vietnamese and Angola are drilling for oil in the Gulf in deals with the Cubans. And of course the Mexicans have this giant new find that they’re getting ready to go get. There’s no mention of the Louisiana oil spill on FEMA’s website. Which tells me, you know, I think Obama must really have it in for wildlife down there, ’cause these are the first victims, and who knew that he had this kind of animus for animals out there?
I’m not convinced there was no sabotage involved. I’ve got a hunch — and that’s all it is — but I’ve got a hunch there is more to this than meets the eye and Rush and his caller are onto something here.
Though if you listened to Mark Levin’s show from Friday (you can listen to in podcast), there were two callers that supported the idea of over pressure & blowout from the gas & oil they were into below.