MSNBC online is an easy place to find a picture of what the hell I am talking about. The "so called tertiary" zone or something like that is obviously the edge of a geologic plate. Their article about the new deep water test well came out on the 5th of this month.

I also saw a short, rather uninformative, but interesting segment on ABC news about the new geophysical survey technology used to locate the test well. They also showed the alleged newly discovered oil to be under the edge of a geologic plate.

Ignoring commone sense, an obese earthquake expert did just say, while I was typing this, From channel 13 ABC in Houston "Florida will not become another California" and their is nothing to worry about.

I don't mean that they should stop producing but people on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico might want to get used to earthquakes.

Obviously I watch too much TV about earthquakes but I thought that geological plates move. Oil underneath a plate of anything slides across the breakfast bar easily.

My point about the well is that they drilled a hole in the edge of a geologic plate and started extracting lubricant. I checked with petroleum expert Dino Sinclair. I asked Sinclair "Sinclair!...is oil slick?". He told me to shut up and go home.

The well is located about 175 miles southwest of the Louisiana coastline. (an abstract location that depends on how much water you want to stand in)

The center of the earthquake was located about 275 miles west of Tampa. Go figure.

The earthquake authorities, god and the no telling who else, are reporting that the quake's epicenter was not on the edge of the plate, but in the center. I think they meant not on the edge. The center might actually have oil on top of it.

How important is all this? According to MSNBC online, the test well alone is producing 6000 barrels a day. Another news source indicated that 6000 barrels would be the production limit of the alleged new discovery. The alleged new discovery, located near other discoveries, would represent one third of our nation's oil reserves. (actually a private consortium claims to own it even though they found it way out there in the open water) The area said to be a new discovery is a 300 square mile area.

Even if more earthquakes in the Gulf of Mexico is tolerable it would be shameful not to document the phenomenon. Similar operations in other locations on plates that have more stress than the one they are playing with now could perhaps trigger a violent quake in deeper water where the results could be intolerable.

Ok. How many other holes are being drilled in the edge of a geologic plate?

Do you really want to know?

I guess what you need to know on the Gulf coast is that if you see a really unusually low tide, especially an unscheduled low low tide, you might want to get the hell out of there.

by Albert Kada
editor of THE AMERICAN bLASPHEMER