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Stingray:

--- Quote from: Dexter on September 02, 2005, 08:36:28 am ---
"A year ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to study how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic hurricane, but the Bush administration ordered that the research not be undertaken. After a flood killed six people in 1995, Congress created the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, in which the Corps of Engineers strengthened and renovated levees and pumping stations. In early 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a report stating that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S., including a terrorist attack on New York City. But by 2003 the federal funding for the flood control project essentially dried up as it was drained into the Iraq war. In 2004, the Bush administration cut funding requested by the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain by more than 80 percent. Additional cuts at the beginning of this year (for a total reduction in funding of 44.2 percent since 2001) forced the New Orleans district of the Corps to impose a hiring freeze. The Senate had debated adding funds for fixing New Orleans' levees, but it was too late."

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I heard about this on NPR after work yesterday. Just amazing. This exact scanario had been predicted, and they had even started trying to develop a plan for dealing with the terrible aftermath that NO is experincing right now, but funding to the project got cut off.

-S

Buddabing:

--- Quote from: JB on September 02, 2005, 02:03:35 am ---
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on September 01, 2005, 10:06:13 am ---Also, a dose of high oil prices might be the wake up call that America needs to recognise that its dependence on vast quantities of oil (much of it from the turbulent middle east) is extremely unhealthy for political, environmental, and (in the long term) economic reasons.

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Fun fact #1: Half of all oil used by the US comes FROM the US.
Fun fact #2: Half of all oil imported by the US comes from that singular disgusting haven of alternating lawless anarchy and opressive regimes known as CANADA.

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Please get your facts straight.

#1: In 2003 the US produced an average of 5.7 million barrels of crude oil per day. That's 2080.5 million barrels for the year, or 2080500 thousand barrels. Crude oil production was lower in 2004 due to Hurricane Ivan. The percentage of crude oil imports is approximately 64%, not 50%.
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#2: In 2004 the US imported a total of 3692063 thousand barrels of crude oil. 591489 came from Canada. That's 16%, not half.
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fredster:
What we are seeing in New Orleans is the culmination of 35 years of GOVERNMENT planning. Ever since the last major Hurricane hit New Orleans Plans were apparently carefully crafted to make sure everything would be taken care of.

I hope we all have warm fuzzies that our government will help us if disaster hits. And no, we don't need any stinking gun control. After all, it looks like we can count on the authorities to know what to do and protect us.

TheVengeance:

--- Quote from: M3talhead on September 01, 2005, 10:10:39 am ---v. loot
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Stingray:
I certainly can't imagine that ordianry NO citizens are behind the whole shooting at the helicopters thing. On the contrary, they're probably even more horrified by it than the rest of us are. My personal theory is that the people shooting at the helicopters must be crazy street people and hard drug addicts who cannot get their fix and are just flipping out because of the withdrawals. Please do not take this theory as me trying to coddle those nuts. We need to get the choppers back in the air, but we need to have a couple of Marines with M-16s in each one to just blow the head off any psycho who shoots at a helicopter. That kind of crap needs to be taken out of the gene pool asap.

-S

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