Rachel Maddow on IxToc Deepwater Horizon Parallels

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Uploaded by on May 30, 2010

All of the techniques now being used to plug the oil spill in the Deepwater Horizon disaster were tried 31 years ago with Ixtoc I and they failed. It was only when relief wells were drilled 9 months after the disaster began that the Ixtoc spill could be capped.

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  • wow

    we are sooooooo.....fucked.

  • i don't like when people re-post shit, but this video should be re-posted by every user on youtube. imagine how amazing it would be if this suddenly became the biggest thing in dealing with bp.

    the company would probably forced to liquidate and shut down, that would be a great and potentially funny sight.

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  • Floyd Kalber is a "gravitas white guy anchor".......gee, we didn't know that!

  • @AXESMI Same BS, different decade/century. Funny, you would think technology would have advanced over the past 40 years.

  • As a result, offshore drilling all but banned; US now fully dependent upon foreign oil, much controlled by Soros. Is this a coincidence? Maybe. Decide for yourself.

  • Follow the money. This was politically/financially motivated to push an agenda.

  • @ThyEndlessDoomX We can, just not easily, and only with specialized equipment.

  • FFFFUUUUUUU

  • WHY....in the hell does this only have 20K views???  I dont know about you guys but Im going to spread this video as much as possible....I

  • so apparently, we can't get down to the leak, but how did the camera that has the live feed get down there?

  • we all keep blogging on the tube... about how to fix this... or how much we are fucked... or how bp is horrible and has killed millions of fish...

    but yet coca cola hasnt stepped in... or mc donalnds.... or wallmart... we all need to step in AS A WHOLE WORLD... to fish this... or were not gonna have any sea life left in 5 years...

    cloning fish here we go... i would invest on cloning labs right now... if i were you guys

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