Oil spill not as bad as thought?

It all BS Tom, we live right in the heart of it, BP made it go away by over using the dispersements, it is probably all on the bottom of the ocean in one huge plume by now.

We will all know the truth the first hurricane that comes our way! When the seas churn it all up and the sea spray blows it all over Gods creation 20 miles inland. (lets hope not but that is what the majority feel will happen)
 
Thad said:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...ll-cement-static-kill-bp-science-environment/
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Good article Thad

Any other articles, agency, group that suggest that 40, 50, 75% of the oil is gone is just ridiculous, nothing just disappears that quick, its there and will be for decades
Russ you mention hurricanes stirring it up. I wonder if that would be a good thing, maybe then more could be cleaned up. My thinking is I rather see it stirred up and then clean it up, than it just laying under the ocean and under the sand of the beaches. I don't know, but what a shame and what a mess
Thank God they finally stopped the flow from it all
 
The worst part is everyone is reporting what benefits them. The enviro nuts assume the absolute worst and BP I'm sure is downplaying it a lot. The news orgs go with the worst because fear sells. So we have to assume it's somewhere in between. Ultimately it's very bad no matter what the degree.

From what I've read, once again who can be sure of a source, out of 3,000+ platforms out there only 15 are considered deep water. If that's the case why not require all deep water wells have a relief well before there is a problem? Start drilling them ASAP.

I also believe 75% gone is BS. I think it could have been if the feds would have acted sooner and let foreign vessels with the technology to handle it come in and help. Or not required environmental studies before they let states make attempts at protecting there own shores. It's getting to the point where states are going to have to make their own decisions and ignore the feds.
 
What happens to all the oil and volcanic debris that comes up naturally out of the ocean floor?

Oil is a natural substance. It's not something that scientists cooked up in a lab somewhere. Nature will eventually take care of it.

It's just like fire. Out west here fire is a way of life. It's nature's way of clearing out the old and bringing in the new. The forest service uses controlled burns all the time for that purpose.

Almost ALL other forest fires are started by lightning. Within months new shows up and starts the process all over again.

Then you have volcanoes. Volcanoes spew more pollutants in the air in minutes than a large city can in years. Yet, somehow, nature absorbs it and starts over anew.

In my opinion, the dispersants may have been our only gaffe in trying to deal with this. Dispersants are not a part of the natural course of dealing with oil in the water. If there are ANY long term effects, I would guess it will have something to do with the dispersants. They should have left it alone. The beaches would have cleansed themselves. That's just my opinion.
 
Tony Shelton said:
What happens to all the oil and volcanic debris that comes up naturally out of the ocean floor?

Oil is a natural substance. It's not something that scientists cooked up in a lab somewhere. Nature will eventually take care of it.

It's just like fire. Out west here fire is a way of life. It's nature's way of clearing out the old and bringing in the new. The forest service uses controlled burns all the time for that purpose.

Almost ALL other forest fires are started by lightning. Within months new shows up and starts the process all over again.

Then you have volcanoes. Volcanoes spew more pollutants in the air in minutes than a large city can in years. Yet, somehow, nature absorbs it and starts over anew.

In my opinion, the dispersants may have been our only gaffe in trying to deal with this. Dispersants are not a part of the natural course of dealing with oil in the water. If there are ANY long term effects, I would guess it will have something to do with the dispersants. They should have left it alone. The beaches would have cleansed themselves. That's just my opinion.
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You are right Oil is not man made, but spewing a bazillion barrels of it into the Gulf in a few months is man made. I am sure nature will take care of it maybe in 20 - 100 years
They should of just left the oil alone and done nothing????
 
Good Post Danny!

"" During the Ixtoc spill, scientists experimented with spreading fertilizer on the slick to encourage bacteria that break down the oil. That may not be a good idea near the Louisiana coast, which already has too much algae because of fertilizer runoff from the Mississippi River, said Terry Hazen, an oil spill cleanup expert at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.""

Maybe the Algae will spread to roofs :thumbup2:
JK
 
That's a good question about "doing nothing".

Ever take a look at an old road? Like when they build a new highway and leave the old highway alongside it to deteriorate?

If you are ever traveling out west take a look at old route 66. It's almost completely overgrown and destroyed in about 40 yrs. Asphalt is a petroleum product and it eventually breaks down.

On the other hand there are many Roman roads from the old Roman empire that are still intact.

I just think we should use a little more common sense in dealing with these "disasters".
 
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