If you would, clarify how you came to identify this series of events. I do not disagree, I would just like to know more.... Could they have applied throttle and avoided the first part? Or were they doomed by proximity?

You don't; Tanker hits you because you are not paying attention.

@@JayRSwan It was too close to the tanker and got sucked into the tankers wake and into the propellers

Thats their Company Logo...Dingleberry....

That’s their uniform, shirts have logo also.

oh Vincent..

I find it hard to believe no one was watching the radar. How could you miss a return that big?

Beer problems.

@@robertlee8042that explains it all

It’s the only way to get to the Gulf, Duh

Boats can reverse the propeller to stop, ships can't. Like a train, ships can take miles to stop.

@@danielebrparish4271 that doesn't explain anything

@@ned6938 As useful as telling us motor boat/ship can move under power. 🙄 Captain Obvious.

This is a follow up story about recovery. The original incident has already been reported on . What's terrible is you not understanding that.

@mizzury54 really? When did they say it was a follow-up story? Again terrible reporting.

Oil is sold to the highest bidder on the world market and oil in the ground doesn't earn interest until it is converted to cash. Drilling doesn't happen until the market needs more oil and the price is high enough to cover the expenses of discovering, drilling and producing it. When prices get too high it becomes cost effective for users to use alternative forms of energy. That is how the world's producers decide how much to put on the market. The more they put up for sale the lower the price becomes until it is not worth drilling for more. The less they put on the market the higher the price becomes until it becomes cheaper to use other forms of energy.

Our refineries cannot process domestically produced oil. We can only refine the oil that we import, and oil companies are not going to build new refineries.

@@danielebrparish4271well stated. Thank you.

@@robertcalef4242Yes!

@@robertcalef4242 hmmmmmmm The U.S. Energy Information Administration Most of the crude oil produced in the United States is refined in U.S. refineries along with imported crude oil to make petroleum products. For data on U.S. domestic (field) crude oil production, imports, exports, and refinery inputs of crude oil see U.S. Petroleum Supply and Disposition. EIA publishes data on the volumes of domestic and imported crude oil received at U.S. refineries in Refinery Receipts of Crude Oil by Method of Transportation.

It goes to refineries and distribution ports located around the US.

@BruiserFL Wut u talkin bout Willis, you can’t be using facts on the damn interwebs😁

@@billgabrielsonjr7259you don’t export to your own country Mr “facts”

@@mertonallowiciousI believe that would bring the Jones Act into play.

Mexico, Canada, the Netherlands, China, and South Korea. 65% of US energy exports by trade dollar value.

Wow, how original.

@@davewendt225 You would think so but not so.

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