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1. voda 19 juni 2010 17:55

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   BP legt opruimoperatie olie deels stil
   19 juni 2010, 17:20 | ANP
   HOUSTON (ANP) - BP heeft het overhevelen van olie uit de lekkende oliebron in de Golf van Mexico deels gestaakt. Dat meldde het Britse olieconcern zaterdag.
   
   Het overhevelen werd in de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag stilgelegd vanwege een technisch probleem op het belangrijkste schip dat bij de opruimoperatie is betrokken. Noodweer met bliksem zorgt ervoor dat pas later op de dag weer kan worden begonnen met overhevelen. Een tweede opvangsysteem, dat sinds woensdag in werking is, is nog wel functionerend.
   
   Eerder deze week brak op hetzelfde schip korte tijd brand uit door bliksem. Ook toen werd de opruimoperatie stilgelegd.
   
   Op 20 april had een explosie op het olieplatform Deepwater Horizon de grootste olieramp in de Amerikaanse geschiedenis tot gevolg. Tientallen miljoenen liters ruwe olie zijn sindsdien in zee gestroomd en honderden kilometers Amerikaanse kustlijn zijn vervuild.
   
   
2. [verwijderd] 19 juni 2010 20:32

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   Deze ramp wordt waarschijnlijk nog veel groter. Dit schijnt een van de grootste reservoirs van de afgelopen 30 jaar te zijn, op grote diepte en met zeer veel druk. Dit lek kun je dan niet zomaar afdichten want dan kan de boel 'ontploffen' met als grootste risico diverse lekken in de zeebodem. Er stromen nu naar schatting 100.000 vaten de zee in en er worden er globaal 25.000 opgevangen. Een groot drama met wellicht fatale gevolgen voor BP.
   
   Op "theoildrum" wordt daarnaast gesuggereerd dat de pijp diep in de zeebodem gescheurd is en de olie gewoon via de grond in zee komt. De hele bron zal wellicht moeten leeglopen voor het over is.
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   Deze ramp wordt waarschijnlijk nog veel groter. Dit schijnt een van de grootste reservoirs van de afgelopen 30 jaar te zijn, op grote diepte en met zeer veel druk. Dit lek kun je dan niet zomaar afdichten want dan kan de boel 'ontploffen' met als grootste risico diverse lekken in de zeebodem. Er stromen nu naar schatting 100.000 vaten de zee in en er worden er globaal 25.000 opgevangen. Een groot drama met wellicht fatale gevolgen voor BP.
   
   Op "theoildrum" wordt daarnaast gesuggereerd dat de pijp diep in de zeebodem gescheurd is en de olie gewoon via de grond in zee komt. De hele bron zal wellicht moeten leeglopen voor het over is.
   

   Hoeveel megaton kan je op het gaatje laten rusten ?
   
   En natuurlijk meerder aanboringen om de druk te verlagen
   
   Ik ben maar een leek,Maar je kan er ook naar blijven kijken natuurlijk
   
   
   
   
4. [verwijderd] 19 juni 2010 22:25

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   Howdy,
   
   VENICE, La. (AP) -- Just when it seemed Gulf residents couldn't get any more outraged about the massive oil spill fouling their coastline, word came Saturday that BP's CEO was taking time off to attend a glitzy yacht race in England.
   
   Tony Hayward's latest public relations gaffe didn't sit well with people in the U.S. who have seen their livelihoods ruined by the massive two-month oil spill.
   
   "Man, that ain't right. None of us can even go out fishing, and he's at the yacht races," said Bobby Pitre, 33, who runs a tattoo shop in Larose, La. "I wish we could get a day off from the oil, too."
   
   >--:-)-->
5. [verwijderd] 19 juni 2010 22:59

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   Prognose schreef:

   [quote=Paulus29]
   Deze ramp wordt waarschijnlijk nog veel groter. Dit schijnt een van de grootste reservoirs van de afgelopen 30 jaar te zijn, op grote diepte en met zeer veel druk. Dit lek kun je dan niet zomaar afdichten want dan kan de boel 'ontploffen' met als grootste risico diverse lekken in de zeebodem. Er stromen nu naar schatting 100.000 vaten de zee in en er worden er globaal 25.000 opgevangen. Een groot drama met wellicht fatale gevolgen voor BP.
   
   Op "theoildrum" wordt daarnaast gesuggereerd dat de pijp diep in de zeebodem gescheurd is en de olie gewoon via de grond in zee komt. De hele bron zal wellicht moeten leeglopen voor het over is.
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   Hoeveel megaton kan je op het gaatje laten rusten ?
   
   En natuurlijk meerder aanboringen om de druk te verlagen
   
   Ik ben maar een leek,Maar je kan er ook naar blijven kijken natuurlijk
   
   
   
   

   en misschien met fatale gevolgen voor Obama? want ik heb begrepen dat zijn optreden in deze zaak niet zo gewaardeerd wordt? gr.
6. basberg 20 juni 2010 12:28

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   nee, dit is niet een van de grootste resevoirs. Dat is een gerucht dat onjuist is. De Deepwater Horizon is gezonken bij het MC252 veld (Mississippi Canyon), een veld met ongeveer een capaciteit van 50 miljoen vaten (uit mijn hoofd). Dit veld is in 2010 ontdekt en het ongeluk gebeurde tijdens een proefboring.
   
   Voordat de Deepwater Horizon bj MC252 aan de slag ging, was het aan het borden in het Tiber veld (dat is een ander resevoir), en dat is een van de grootste velden ter wereld, met een geschatte capaciteit van 4 miljard vaten. Dit veld ligt voor de kust van Texas, niet van Louisiana.
   
   Is een reaktie die ik indirekt doorkreeg
7. [verwijderd] 20 juni 2010 14:14

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   BP board approves fund-raising plan: UK Times
   
   BP to raise $50 billion for spill costs: UK Times
   
   BP to sell $10 billion of bonds: UK Times
   
   BP to sell $20 bln assets over 2 years: UK Times
   
   BP, banks discuss $20 billion of loans: UK Times
   
   $50 miljard! dat is toch indirect het einde van de onderneming?
8. ffff 20 juni 2010 14:23

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   Een paar weken geleden postte ik in de KK dat Transocean (uiteraard) het volgen waard is. Waneer het zakken van de koers nu eens wil stoppen, weet natuurlijk geen mens ( behalve T.A.-ers, sorry) maar de ommekeer eergisteren is toch vrij spectaculair.
   
   Houd wel goed in de gaten dat Transocean vrijdag jl. is opgenomen in de SMI, dus zeg maar de Zwitserse AEX, zodat nogal wat professionelen MOESTEN kopen die de SMI spiegelen.
   
   Zeker een aandeel dat het volgen waard is, eventueel om mee te speculeren, bij dit hele BP-gebeuren.
   
   Peter
9. [verwijderd] 20 juni 2010 14:32

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   paulta schreef:

   BP board approves fund-raising plan: UK Times
   
   BP to raise $50 billion for spill costs: UK Times
   
   BP to sell $10 billion of bonds: UK Times
   
   BP to sell $20 bln assets over 2 years: UK Times
   
   BP, banks discuss $20 billion of loans: UK Times
   
   $50 miljard! dat is toch indirect het einde van de onderneming?
   

   geen probleem paulta, bp kan makkelijk 75 miljard ophalen
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    De waarde van het onderpand(het bedrijf BP) kan in korte tijd zomaar verdampen als ware het een liter kerosine, groot risico toch wel.
    
    Les uit deze gebeurtenissen: imago en publieke opinie maken of breken een bedrijf.
    
    Als er volgende week 56000 pakistanie overlijden door een giftig mengsel in de Coca Cola....een bezuiniging op de kleurstof of goedkoper probeersel in dit goedje......tot ziens Coke.
    
    Werkelijk een heel groot drama, die olie in de oceaan.
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    paulta schreef:

    De waarde van het onderpand(het bedrijf BP) kan in korte tijd zomaar verdampen als ware het een liter kerosine, groot risico toch wel.
    
    Les uit deze gebeurtenissen: imago en publieke opinie maken of breken een bedrijf.
    
    Als er volgende week 56000 pakistanie overlijden door een giftig mengsel in de Coca Cola....een bezuiniging op de kleurstof of goedkoper probeersel in dit goedje......tot ziens Coke.
    
    Werkelijk een heel groot drama, die olie in de oceaan.
    

    BP gaat failliet als ze geen hulp krijgen.
12. [verwijderd] 20 juni 2010 14:57

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    In de VS is BP een'"hype" ....en begrijpelijk.
    Lijntjes met 300 berichtjes in een paar uur, vol met emotie en ideeen.
    
    Denks eens in wat er gebeurt als Chevron de west-europese kusten besmeurt met duizenden tonnen vieze drab, van Noorwegen tot aan Portugal en weer terug...
    
    Laat die freebees maar zitten dan...en dat tanken bij dat bedrijf ook maar eigenlijk ....
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    BP in $50bn plan to plug finances
    Directors want to make sure they have sufficient cash to deal with claims and bolster market confidence in the stricken oil giant’s finances
    Ben Marlow and Danny Fortson Published: 20 June 20102 commentsHayward spent yesterday on his yacht as BP had to halt its oil recovery operation (Chris Ison) BP is working on a secret plan to raise $50 billion (£34 billion) to cover the cost of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, more than twice the amount previously disclosed.
    
    Directors approved the scheme last week. They want to make sure they have sufficient cash to deal with claims and bolster market confidence in the stricken oil giant’s finances.
    
    Details of the fundraising emerged as Anadarko Petroleum, the junior partner in the ruptured well, prepared to file a “wilful misconduct” lawsuit that would shift its share of the multi-billion-dollar claims bill onto BP.
    
    The first influx of cash could come as soon as next week with a $10 billion bond sale. The company is in talks with banks on arranging another $20 billion in loans. The final $20 billion is expected to come from asset sales over the next two years.
    
    Carl-Henric Svanberg, the chairman, declined to comment on the plan’s details but said: “We need to have an unusually strong cash position.”
    
    BP is accelerating its fundraising because its cost of borrowing could be about to soar. The three large ratings agencies slashed the group’s credit status last week amid fears that the claims from America’s worst environmental disaster could reach $100 billion.
    
    Since the crisis struck two months ago, BP shares have fallen 45% to 357p, valuing it at £67 billion.
    
    Yesterday BP chief executive Tony Hayward, who has been fiercely criticised, was on his yacht off the Isle of Wight, where the Round the Island race was taking place. Greenpeace said he was “rubbing salt into the wounds” of devastated gulf communities. He is due to give the keynote address at the World National Oil Companies Congress in London on Tuesday.
    
    Speculation about his job, and Svanberg’s, is growing. Hayward is to pass control of the day-to-day handling of the spill to Bob Dudley, an American BP executive. A source close to the company said that Chip Goodyear, the former chief executive of BHP Billiton, the mining giant, could be brought in to fill either post.
    
    No change is likely before the well is plugged. That should finally come in August with the completion of two relief wells.
    
    One investor compared BP to Railtrack, the private company that ran Britain’s railways and collapsed into administration in 2001. The shareholder, one of the oil group’s largest, said it needed a “top to bottom” revamp. “There needs to be a new BP after this,” he said.
    
    Svanberg said: “I believe that every crisis presents opportunities. It is important that you bring an open mind to the situation. When something like this happens, it puts things in perspective.”
    
    BP, which owns 65% of the Gulf of Mexico well, has spent $1.6 billion so far on the clean-up effort. It sent bills to its partners — Anadarko, which owns 25% of the well, and Mitsui, the Japanese group that owns the other 10% — for their share of the costs. Anadarko declined to pay and sources close to the situation said it was about to sue BP.
    
    Jim Hackett, Anadarko’s chief executive, said the disaster was a “direct result of BP’s reckless decisions and actions”. If it can prove BP’s negligence, the firm will not be liable for damages caused by the disaster. Mitsui’s position is unclear.
    
    BP had to halt the main oil collection effort temporarily this weekend because of a blocked vent. When functioning properly, the system capturs 25,000 barrels a day, it said. US government estimates put the flow rate at up to 60,000 barrels a day.
    
    After a meeting with President Barack Obama last week, BP agreed to put $20 billion into a clean-up fund. To pay for it, the dividend has been cancelled for the rest of the year. The remainder, BP said, would come from spending cuts, cash-flow and asset sales.
    
    News of BP’s asset sale programme will lure predators. The company wants to sell exploration and production assets outside its key strongholds in the Gulf of Mexico and Russia, and minority, non-operated positions in older fields.
    
    Last night After Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive, spent Saturday on his yacht off the Isle of Wight watching the Round-The-Island Race, Rahm Emanuel, White House chief of staff, said: “This has just been part of a long line of PR gaffes and mistakes.”
    
    “Well, to quote Tony Hayward, he’s got his life back, as he would say,” Emanuel told ABC News in America.
    
    “And I think we can all conclude that Tony Hayward is not going to have a second career in PR consulting.”
    
    Emanuel added: “There’s really a substance here that matters. That’s clearly a PR mistake, but he’s made a number of those mistakes. What’s important is: are we capping the well? Are we capturing the oil? Are we containing the cleanup? Are we filing the claims? Are we also cleaning up the mess? That’s what’s important.”
    
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    There will be blood
    A 'new BP' could grow out of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill – but what it will look like will be determined largely by who runs it
    Danny Fortson Published: 20 June 2010Hayward committed the company to a $20bn clean-up fund (Rex/Michael Reynolds/Carolyn Cole) Tony Hayward looked like the loneliest man in the world on Wednesday. Sitting alone at a bare wooden table before two dozen congressmen, the embattled chief executive of BP was subjected to eight hours of accusations, anger and insults.
    
    The Capitol Hill hearing on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was not a fact-finding exercise. It was a public flogging. And though the multiple investigations into the causes of the disastrous rig blast in April are months from conclusion, the US politicians — and public — were already convinced of who to blame for the country’s worst environmental disaster.
    
    Mike Ross, a Democrat from Arkansas, accused Hayward of making “a number of decisions deliberately putting profit before safety”. Jan Shakowsky, a Democrat from Illinois, said he had committed “one of most shameful acts in American corporate history”.
    
    It was the kind of invective that only a week before inspired British business leaders, and even the prime minister, publicly to back Hayward and BP. After all, until the crisis had sapped its share price, BP was the most valuable company in Britain. On Wednesday, though, none of that fighting talk could be heard from across the Atlantic. Just a deafening silence.
    
    After two futile months trying to cap a well now estimated to be leaking 60,000 barrels of oil a day, Hayward is, many believe, a dead man walking. The assumption is that he will get pushed not long after the well is capped, which, if all goes well, will be in August. Carl-Henric Svanberg, the oil giant’s globe-trotting Swedish chairman, who has been criticised for maintaining an odd anonymity through much of the crisis, is also thought likely to be shown the door.
    
    However, the implications stretch far beyond the job security of highly-paid executives. For BP, the spill could prove to be the most transformational event in its 109 years. “There needs to be a new BP after this,” one shareholder said. “The way they do business needs to be fundamentally different.”
    
    What the “new BP” will look like will be determined largely by who runs it. With the share price down 45% on its level before the Deepwater Horizon blast, there is still a good possibility of it being taken over by a rival before it gets the chance to change.
    
    “The issue for BP,” said a source close to the company, “Is that it has always seen itself not as a boring exploration company but a company of entrepreneurs, especially under [previous chief executive] Lord Browne, so there was a lot of delegated authority. Hayward grew up in that culture. He was moving it in a different direction but it looks like he may have run out of time.”
    
    In an interview with The Sunday Times yesterday, Svanberg admitted changes were coming: “Every crisis presents opportunities. When something like this happens, it puts things in perspective.”
    
    The company, meanwhile, is preparing for the worst. Faced with incalculable potential liabilities, BP has drawn up an emergency plan to raise $50 billion (£33.7 billion) in asset sales, bonds and new credit lines — at least twice its publicly announced fundraising goal — for an “Armageddon fund”.
    
    Exxon Mobil is the gold standard when it comes to operating the dangerous kit required to get oil out of the ground. The “Exxon way”, as it is known in the industry, revolves around an elaborate set of standard operating procedures that is ruthlessly enforced and monitored.
    
    When Hayward took over at BP in 2007, he was “gobsmacked” at the lack of technical and safety rigour, he told The Sunday Times.
    
    Much of the problem has been blamed on his predecessor, Lord Browne of Madingley. He transformed BP into an industry titan through a series of takeovers, notably of US rivals Amoco and Arco. But critics say his grand vision came at the expense of operations, creating systemic weakness that was exposed in the 2005 Texas City refinery explosion that killed 15 people.
    
    Hayward, a geologist who spent his early career in field, wanted to create a “BP way”. Early on he rolled out an “operations management system”, an Exxon-like set of standard procedures, across the company. By March this year it had been implemented at 80% of BP’s operations, and internal safety audits suggested it had already had an impact. Last year the group reported new lows for workplace injuries and spills.
    
    For BP, the spill could prove to be the most transformational event in its 109 years Investors were pleased with the change of emphasis. “Hayward was the new BP,” a shareholder said. “After the Browne era, where the company was led by accounting and deal-doing, Hayward meant a return to technological leadership.”
    
    Then the Deepwater Horizon exploded into a fireball on the night of April 20.
    
    Early indications from the congressional inquiry into the accident don’t look good for BP. Questionable decisions have come to light and industry insiders wonder whether Hayward’s safety-first approach has percolated through all levels of the organisation.
    
    Records show BP regularly used a cheaper well design that may be more susceptible to gas leaks. “In a company of that size and complexity,” an industry source said, “it takes a long time for changes to trickle down to drilling superintendents halfway round the world.” Anadarko Petroleum, junior partner in the gulf well, said it was “shocked” by BP’s methods and it plans to sue in an effort to escape liability claims.
    
    The catastrophe that has unfolded since the explosion — a gushing well, oily sludge washing up along America’s southern coast, potential liabilities of up to $100 billion — has brought BP's very existence into question. Its agreement last week to give $20 billion over three-and-a-half years to an independently-run clean-up fund, and the cancellation of its dividend for the rest of 2010, were meant to end the panic.
    
    “We have reached an important point,” Svanberg said of the concessions granted after a White House meeting last week. “[President Obama] was voicing the frustration of those affected and we want to help them and make sure the right money gets to the right people. We had a long private chat and he was supportive.”
    
    The market was less convinced. All three major agencies slashed BP’s credit rating, despite its assurances that between spending and dividend cuts, assets sales and $30 billion in annual cashflow, it has the ability to cover the clean-up and coming litigation.
    
    Things could get worse. “I have doubts whether they will be able to pay their dividend in 2011 either,” a banker said. “What they are facing is a choice between putting real stress on the corporation by reinstating the dividend [next year] or putting more assets up for sale.”
    
    BP has opted for the latter. It plans to sell $20 billion of assets over the next two years. Sources said these are likely to be exploration and production assets outside America and Europe. Predators are lurking, however, sizing up larger morsels that, in less desperate times, BP would not think of selling, such as its key positions in the Gulf of Mexico and Russia.
    In a treacherous stretch of sea off Greenland known as Iceberg Alley, Cairn Energy, the London-listed explorer, w
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    BP has opted for the latter. It plans to sell $20 billion of assets over the next two years. Sources said these are likely to be exploration and production assets outside America and Europe. Predators are lurking, however, sizing up larger morsels that, in less desperate times, BP would not think of selling, such as its key positions in the Gulf of Mexico and Russia.
    
    In a treacherous stretch of sea off Greenland known as Iceberg Alley, Cairn Energy, the London-listed explorer, will next month use two oil rigs to drill one well. The second rig will be on hand so that if a blowout like the one in the gulf occurs, it can immediately start to drill a relief well to plug it.
    
    It’s an unusual approach, yet some fear it is a sign of things to come in deepwater drilling. “The regulatory backlash is not going to be pretty for anyone but the great fear is that it makes the Gulf of Mexico no longer economically viable,” said an industry source. Over the next decade, most new production was set to come from deepwater basins.
    
    “If that slows down or gets prohibitively expensive,” an analyst said, “it’s just going to mean we all pay for it in a higher oil price.”
    
    The charges against BP
    Investigations into the explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and left a ruptured well on the seafloor are far from over. However, a picture has begun to emerge of a series of decisions Congessional investigators say may have contributed to the disaster. They include:
    
    BP’s choice of a “riskier”, cheaper option when deciding how to case the last section of the well the day before the accident.
    
    That the company turned down the recommendation of Halliburton, the contractor that was cementing the well, to install 21 “centralisers” and put in just six instead. Centralisers keep the casing in the middle of the borehole and ensure that gas cannot seep up along the sides.
    
    That BP decided to prematurely remove the drilling fluid, called mud, from the hole. Mud is crucial to maintaining high pressure gas and oil from bursting up through the borehole.
    
    That BP and other contractors on the Deepwater Horizon did not run an acoustic test to determine whether the recently injected cement between the casing and the borehole walls had set and formed a seal that would keep gas from escaping.
    
    That BP declined to install a “lockdown sleeve”, a seal that is meant to go over the top of the well to ensure that no oil or gas escapes after the rig finishes the job.
    
    Non-execs who hold Hayward's fate in their hands
    The bookmakers have been running the odds for a few weeks now on who is likely to go first.
    
    Will it be Tony Hayward, 53, the chief executive who could arguably make the claim to being the most hated man in America? Or Carl-Henric Svanberg, 58, the former boss of mobile phone giant Ericsson who took the chairman’s job at BP just six months ago and has been found wanting?
    
    What most observers agree is that once the well is capped, the company will need to get rid of one — if not both. That decision will fall to BP’s board. The following are some of the heavy hitters who will play a key role in choosing who goes, and who comes in.
    
    Sir Bill Castell The senior independent director on the board, he will lead the search for fresh blood. Seen as a savvy operator, he is already the main conduit between shareholders and the board.
    
    Castell, 63, ran Amersham, the healthcare firm, until it was taken over by GE Healthcare in 2004. He stayed on and became vice-chairman at GE before stepping down in 2006. He is also chairman of the Wellcome Trust.
    
    George David A former chairman of UTC, the industrial conglomerate, the 68-year-old American is one of the most respected figures in US business circles. His input will be key.
    
    Most observers agree that if BP has a hope of getting back in America’s good books — 40% of its assets are located there — it will need to have someone from the US, in the role of either chairman or chief executive, who has the political connections and an innate understanding of the country.
    
    Cynthia Carroll Long before she became chief executive of Anglo American, the mining giant, Carroll, 53, worked at Amoco, the US oil group that was later bought by BP. Also an American, her connections and knowledge of the US market will be crucial.
    
    Paul Anderson The former boss of BHP Billiton, the world’s biggest miner, is a new addition to the board, having joined in February. As a newcomer, Anderson, 65, could bring a valuable outside perspective. He also made the recent shortlist for chairman before losing out to Svanberg. Before BHP he was chief executive of Duke Energy.
    
    DeAnne Julius A former member of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee and chief economist at Shell and British Airways, she is one of Britain’s most well-connected executives. Julius, 61, also chairs BP’s remuneration committee
    
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    Obama harms special relationship
    A poll carried out in Britain and American reveals Obama's handling of the BP oil spill crisis is damaging relations between the two countries
    David Smith Published: 20 June 201029 commentsPresident Barack Obama's attacks on BP are damaging relations, a poll found (Charles Dharapak) President Barack Obama’s attacks on BP over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are damaging the special relationship between Britain and America, according to a poll carried out in both countries.
    
    The YouGov poll, which questioned nearly 1,500 people in Britain and almost 600 in America, shows overwhelmingly that Obama’s strident attacks on BP are hurting the special relationship. By 64% to 2% in Britain and by 47% to 5% in America, people believe the president’s handling of the crisis has damaged relations.
    
    For British respondents, Obama’s attacks have changed for the worse their attitude to America. Only 54% said they now had a favourable attitude towards America, compared with 66% when the question was asked before the oil spill. More than a fifth of people in both Britain and America, 22% in each case, think Obama is anti-British.
    
    After Tony Hayward, BP’s chief executive, spent yesterday on his yacht, Rahm Emanuel, White House chief of staff, said: “This has just been part of a long line of PR gaffes and mistakes.”
    
    Hayward was widely criticised and quickly apologized for complaining that he wanted his “life back” weeks after the April 20 Deepwater Horizon offshore rig explosion that killed 11 workers and led to the worst oil spill in American history.
    
    “Well, to quote Tony Hayward, he’s got his life back, as he would say,” Emanuel told ABC News in America.
    
    “And I think we can all conclude that Tony Hayward is not going to have a second career in PR consulting.”
    
    Emanuel added: “There’s really a substance here that matters. That’s clearly a PR mistake, but he’s made a number of those mistakes. What’s important is: are we capping the well? Are we capturing the oil? Are we containing the cleanup? Are we filing the claims? Are we also cleaning up the mess? That’s what’s important.”
    
    
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    Investors ask what’s next after Obama’s goodbye to oil
    Renewables experts say money must start flowing, as Obama announces more attention needs to be devoted to developing clean energy sources
    Sean O’Driscoll Published: 20 juni 2010US President Barack Obama is pitching for a much diluted energy bill (Brendan Smialowski) Mike Strizki had just parked his hydrogen car after a trip to the local coffee house when President Barack Obama appeared on television to launch yet another tirade against the oil industry.
    
    A green technology entrepreneur who runs his house on a mix of hydrogen and geothermal energy, Strizki powers his self-built car on tap water, which the engine splits into hydrogen and oxygen.
    
    As Obama started to speak, Strizki’s ears pricked up. In light of the BP oil spill, the president said, America would have to devote more time, attention and money to developing clean energy sources. He promised new incentives to make it work.
    
    Strizki kept listening, waiting for groundbreaking news that would lift his experiments from passionate garage tinkering to a multi-billion industry that could rival the petroleum business.
    
    Like many in alternative energy, however, he is still waiting for the details. While America braces itself for a sweeping move into green energy, investors in the sector are sceptical it will happen.
    
    “President Obama talks real nice but he didn’t put his money where his mouth is,” Strizki said from his rural New Jersey home. “I’ve watched the speech twice and I don’t see specifics. It’s all about what we could be doing — not what we are doing.”
    
    His disappointment rises to bitterness when he considers the enormous investment the US government has placed in petrol-driven transport in the past five decades, compared with the tiny incentives offered for renewable energy.
    
    “This is the time to break that spell. If we invest in hydrogen and solar and wind, we can make that leap. I like Obama’s language but this change requires a lot more than words,” said Strizki.
    
    He did, however, welcome Obama’s announcement that he is to replace the head of the federal government’s oil industry regulation section, the Minerals Management Service, parts of which earned a notorious reputation for cuddling up to fossil fuel companies.
    
    For David Roberts, a renewable energy expert with Grist.org, an environmental website, Obama’s signals were complex — his speech was as much for the ears of Congress as it was for the American public.
    
    “A new energy bill is stalled in the Senate and needs encouragement. Normally Obama’s energy speeches come out in favour of clean coal, nuclear power and domestic drilling, but they weren’t mentioned this time. I think Obama wants to deal with what can be achieved in the Senate, not what Obama would like to see happen,” Roberts said.
    
    All of this sounds rather underwhelming for green energy investors.
    
    Obama may have talked about harnessing America’s fighting spirit but ultimately he is pitching for a much diluted energy bill — one without carbon cap and trade and one that will not require the sacrifice of a world war or a moon landing.
    
    The key is to explain how America is falling behind China in adopting new green technology, believes Andrew Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies and co-author of Green to Gold, a bestselling guide for companies that wish to profit from green investment.
    
    “China is pouring $9 billion (£6 billion) a month into clean energy, so that is going to give them a huge knowledge advantage. Americans understand that and they don’t want to be left behind,” he said.
    
    For Winston, who has worked on green policies for Fortune 500 companies, Obama was probably avoiding the necessary hard figures in the run-up to congressional elections with so much anti-government sentiment in the air. “You have the tea party people, you have a recession, you have a lot of anger out there. To go on national television and call for more tax would have provoked a massive reaction.”
    
    Back in New Jersey, Strizki was filling his fuel tank with water the morning after Obama’s speech. “What’s wrong with this picture?” he said. “I’m walking 10ft from my water tap to my car and that’s all the fuel I need. Do you think BP and Exxon can say the same thing? If Obama wants to be taken seriously, the money is going to have to flow downhill.”
    
    
18. [verwijderd] 20 juni 2010 15:32

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    Mooie posting Arjan!
    
    Het ziet er op youtubefilmpjes vrij eenvoudig uit om een auto om te bouwen. Zouden er in Nederland al mensen zijn die dit ombouwen hebben gedaan en mogelijk dit ook voor anderen doen?
    
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHCBgy8tw_M&f...
    
    www.youtube.com/?gl=NL&hl=nl
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    Wat iedereen weet: alle belangrijke patenten aangaande op waterstof rijden of electrisch rijden zijn in handen van oliebedrijven.
    Opgekocht voor veel geld en diep in de la gelegd(zo! daar komen ze voorlopig niet meer aan ....)
    Triest maar waar.
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    Ja, zou best zo kunnen zijn en dat maakt het op grote schaal veranderen niet gemakkelijk, tenzij... Obama en andere regeringen in het algemeen belang die (goedkope) patenten nietig verklaard.
    
    Zijn er mensen in Nederland die hun auto op water laten rijden?