[Little Ray]

Dunno.
Lot of oystering folks from Apalachicola lost their livelihood from that spill and the oysters have not completely recovered.

[the OlLine Rebel]

The earth is not as fragile as condescending patronizing communists want to believe. Nor or we humans quite as powerful as they make out (for bad, of course).

I’m sick of the environmental religion.

[Red Badger]

It did stink to high heaven here though.....................

[TigersEye]

Oil is fish food.

Nature healed what man inflicted in 1979 Gulf spill Read more: June 10, 2010

" "A lot of the fishermen around here will tell you that the fish never came back,'' says Vega Morales. ``They'll say, `Oh, in the old days, you could catch fish with your hat, it was so easy.' That's how we are, always talking about the one that got away. But the truth is, after maybe nine months or so, it was back to normal." " (Ixtoc 1)

"Soto, who followed the fish and shrimp population off Mexico closely, found to his surprise that for most species the numbers had returned to normal within two years."

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Oil Cleanup Expert Comments on Gulf Spill

"Every year 2 million to 12 million tons of oil naturally seep from the ocean floor and into the sea. In fact, many of the deposits in the Gulf of Mexico were discovered by observing these oil seeps, which is why the hydrocarbon degraders are everywhere, waiting for their “dinner” or fuel. Fishermen should be prepared for the extra catches that are coming because after every major oil spill there’s an explosion of local fish."

"But before a fish explosion can happen, the microorganisms need to be able to get to the oil and digest it. Since oil and water don’t mix, adding a dispersant will accelerate the breakdown of the oil, making it more available to the microorganisms."

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1979's Ixtoc oil well blowout in Gulf of Mexico has startling parallels to current disaster

"Even with those obstacles, fishers still managed to amass an impressive catch in 1979 -- when oil was gushing into the Gulf."

"Researchers in Campeche found shrimping that year enjoyed a high. The total tonnage of seafood caught in the Gulf of Mexico grew by 5.9 percent compared with the previous 12 months, and octopus capture in the Bay of Campeche beat the previous record by 50 percent."

"Tunnell's follow-up research into life near Texas beaches showed that organisms whose populations were apparently reduced by the massive spill replenished themselves within a few years."

[CaptainAmiigaf]

What happened to the countless MILLIONS of gallons of fuel (of many kinds) that were spilled from sinking ships during WWII? Hundreds of ships carryng many thousands of gallons EACH, went down, yet the seas were not covered with oil.
Many ships, of course, burned on the surface, but they took unspilled fuel down to the bottom.
These “spills” occurred steadily from 1939 until August, 1045. I think the oceans are doing pretty well in general.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Rush was a monster today.

[BobinIL]

So is Obama going to give BP their $1,000,000,000.00 extortion payout back??

[Socon-Econ]

Rush at his best.

[chris37]

Well I know two things.

Watching the oil spill out of that well on the live feed cam infuriated me to no end. I would just sit there and stew watching it. I love the Gulf.

I was at the beach in Destin last week, and it was gorgeous despite the double red flag surf.

Crystal clear water. Everything looked beautiful.

I’m glad things worked out.

And yeah, we aren’t going to destroy the oceans. Nothing is.

Oceans destroy, they do not get destroyed.

The primal elements are awesome!

[ChessExpert]

It seems a bit like old news, as I read about this a long time ago, perhaps on FreeRepublic. The news is that it is news now - it’s official:

“Oil-eating microbes ate most of the oil BP spilled into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, according to new research by scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.”

Also in the old news department:
a) BP was a big donor to Obama
b) BP’s risky deep-water drilling plans were fast-tracked through the EPA.
c) Obama used the oil spill as an excuse to shut-down much safer shallow water coastal drilling operations. (I guess the affected (American?) companies did not contribute enough to Obama’s campaigns.)

[clearcarbon]

"I Told You the Ocean Would Eat the BP Oil Spill”

I remember that bj clinton thought that plugging the leak with a thermonuclear device was a pretty good idea.