Oil Rig explodes in the Gulf

**BlackcatAlum** · 09-02-2010, 12:02 PM

GRAND ISLE, La. â An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP's undersea well spilled after a rig explosion.

The Coast Guard says no one was killed in the blast, which was reported by a commercial helicopter flying over the area Thursday morning. All 13 people aboard the rig have been accounted for, with one injury. The extent of the injury was not known.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_rig_explosion

**Aslan** · 09-02-2010, 12:22 PM

Blame it on Bush.

**Stardust** · 09-02-2010, 12:30 PM

I couldn't open the link, who is the company?

***Wildcatk23*** · 09-02-2010, 02:45 PM

Mariner Energy

IRISH4 · 09-02-2010, 06:59 PM

That's awful! What's even worse is that the gas stations around here are taking this event and trying to make an extra dollar or two off us. Gas rose 20 cents/gallon an hour after this happened. Classless price gougers.

**Stardust** · 09-02-2010, 07:03 PM

IRISH4 Wrote:That's awful! What's even worse is that the gas stations around here are taking this event and trying to make an extra dollar or two off us. Gas rose 20 cents/gallon an hour after this happened. Classless price gougers.

Sickening!

**BlackcatAlum** · 09-02-2010, 08:54 PM

I got my $11.00 worth yesterday for $2.61 a gallon.