Long? Yeah, sorry.  I type fast and probably think too much... 

Leaks are common, though, according to all 4 people I know who live in Alaska. And some leaks in the more remote areas aren't really gotten to in any hurry unless they are severe. I haven't heard of any catastrophic failures, though. Just part of doing business in oil is how they see it.

the way I look at it oil has been seeping out of the ground for years upon years only we figured out how to contain it. Now there saying fraking. Is causing earthquake. But I wouldn't know, I'm not one of them dere geo ologist perstins.

Watch more Fox...

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/01/us-military-again-rescues-iranian-mariners-in-distress/1

............and in a follow up, the Coasties rescue a bunch of Iranians this week.

For the second time in a week, the U.S. military has come to the rescue of Iranian sailors in the North Arabian Gulf, according to the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command.

This time a U.S. Coast Guard ship helped an Iranian cargo dhow, Ya-Hussayn, with six mariners aboard, that was flooding and deemed unseaworthy.

The Navy says the USCGC Monomoy, a patrol board, responded at 3 a.m. to distress signals -- flares and flashlights -- from the Ya-Hussayn.

The incident occurred about 50 miles southeast of the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr, according to the Pentagon.

A small boat from the Monomoy rescued two people from the Ya-Hussayn itself and four from a life raft tied off its stern.

The Navy quoted Hakim Hamid-Awi, owner of the Ya-Hassayn, as telling the Monomoy crew: "Without your help, we were dead. Thank you for all that you did for us."

The six Iranians were transferred by inflatable boats to an Iranian Coast Guard vessel, the statement says.

Last Thursday, the U.S. Navy rescued 13 Iranian fishermen who had been held captive by pirates in the northern Arabian Sea, just outside the Persian Gulf, for more than 40 days, the Associated Press reports.

That happened just days after Tehran warned the United States to keep its warships out of the Gulf.

The Iranians are testing our response time

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45955042/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/#.Tw3FYYGYuSo

Wonder if this is the Israelis.