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Our Louisiana Gumbo Tour continues<\/em>… \u00a0 While we’ve been down here, the Deep Water Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf 50 miles south of New Orleans. \u00a0 As of today, the oil spill was at 42,000 gallons a day and had already spread out over 1,800 square miles. \u00a0 And indications are it could get much<\/em> \u00a0 worse… \u00a0 Earlier today, I talked with Jim Mathus back in Cleveland. \u00a0 He recently retired from the Army Corps of Engineers as a marine engineer and he also worked for Shell on some of their oil rigs, also in the Gulf of Mexico. \u00a0 \u00a0Mathus drew a corollary between these rigs and, say, one’s car engine. \u00a0 He said these oil rigs have a lot of working parts, just like a car engine. \u00a0 If a piston in a car engine breaks, for instance, \u00a0oil can spew out on a manifold, igniting a fire. \u00a0 The dynamics can be somewhat simimilar (on a rudimentary level) to these oil rigs, Mathus said. \u00a0 The bottom line with this is that, in a sense, \u00a0it seems that we’re playing Russian Roullette with things that can be fraught with human error. \u00a0 \u00a0 The gun being held to: the environment’s head. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 According to a recent Newsweek<\/em> article, environmentalists warn that the thousands of gallons of mud that deep water drilling unearths contain toxic metals — mercury, lead and cadmium — that may end up in the seafood supply. \u00a0 What’s more, hurricanes Rita and Katrina led to 125 spills from platforms and pipelines on the Outer Continental Shelf, releasing nearly 685,000 gallons of petroleum products into the ocean, also \u00a0according to the Newsweek<\/em> article. \u00a0 Note 2:<\/strong> \u00a0 At Sunday Mass at St. Aloysius Catholic Church \u00a0in Baton Rouge, we learned one of the parishioners here had been killed in the Deep Water Horizon explosion. \u00a0 He \u00a0was the father of two children. \u00a0 \u00a0Like with the coal miners, are these oil rig workers becoming part of the “inevitable collateral damage” of our energy gluttony in this country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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