[CaptainAmiigaf]

During WW II many, many of miles of east coast beaches were
were covered by oil blasted from oil tankers sunk by German U-Boats. Have any of those beaches become usable yet?
Oil slicks covered the Atlantic from the USA to England, but I sort of believe there were NO permanent environmental disasters.
Don’t worry, though, next Thursday the MEDIA will find something else to get hysterical about.

[CobraJet]

Correct. Next Thursday the media will warn people who live on unpaved roads or have unpaved driveways that the dust is going to kill them. The government will hand out millions in grant money to study the problem.

[rhombus]

During WW II many, many of miles of east coast beaches were were covered by oil blasted from oil tankers sunk by German U-Boats. Have any of those beaches become usable yet?

I don't know what they were like in 1946, 47 or 48. I was just wondering if using the dispersants was a choice of the lesser of two evils (sort of like voting).