Posted on 07/27/2010 4:29:06 AM PDT by lbryce
For 86 days, oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's damaged well, dumping some 200 million gallons of crude into sensitive ecosystems. BP and the federal government have amassed an army to clean the oil up, but there's one problem -- they're having trouble finding it.
At its peak last month, the oil slick was the size of Kansas, but it has been rapidly shrinking, now down to the size of New Hampshire.
Today, ABC News surveyed a marsh area and found none, and even on a flight out to the rig site Sunday with the Coast Guard, there was no oil to be seen.
"That oil is somewhere. It didn't just disappear," said Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser.
Salvador Cepriano is one of the men searching for crude. Cepriano, a shrimper, has been laying out boom with his boat, but he's found that there's no oil to catch.
"I think it is underneath the water. It's in between the bottom and the top of the water," Cepriano said.
Even the federal government admits that locating the oil has become a problem.
"It is becoming a very elusive bunch of oil for us to find," said National Incident Cmdr. Thad Allen.
Skimmers Pick Up Less Oil
The numbers don't lie: two weeks ago, skimmers picked up about 25,000 barrels of oily water. Last Thursday, they gathered just 200 barrels.
Still, it doesn't mean that all the oil that gushed for weeks is gone. Thousands of small oil patches remain below the surface, but experts say an astonishing amount has disappeared, reabsorbed into the environment.
"[It's] mother nature doing her job," said Ed Overton, a professor of environmental studies at Louisiana State University.
Experts: Gulf of Mexico Oil is Breaking Up
The light crude began to deteriorate the moment
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Makes the oil sink. It didn’t just disappear.
It's no longer in the environment, it's beyond the environment:
“””For 86 days, oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s damaged well, dumping some 200 million gallons of crude into sensitive ecosystems””””
I know Obama and MSM like big numbers, but just maybe the oil spill was a lot less than 200 million gallons.
That can explain why oil is hard to find today.
Matt Simmons makes little sense at all to me. 120,000 bbls of crude flowing for the past 90 days wouldn’t fill a cube 400’ X 400’ X 400’. That’s 1/3 larger than the length of a football field.
And he’s talking 500’ thick covering an area the size of the state of WA.
My Take on the spill, 0 called Rush, and asked him what to do, (since Rush is all knowing), and Rush told him to do nothing. Like the wise and capable 0 we elected, he took his advice.
Like Rush, (who is always right), always says, when the Government does nothing, Mother nature will take care of herself. Government acrion break more things than they fix.
barbra ann
And most of it was refined product.
Let’s not celebrate too soon. Oil didn’t disappear. It went somewhere. Maybe it won’t be a problem, but maybe it will. I would worry about food chain. We’ll see, eventually.
JUST WONDERING How did the admin arrive at $20 billion without the benefit of a full investigation of the causes and without a final solution for the problem? How come the $20B agreement between Ohaha and BP was not published?
WH Meeting with BP executives in the Roosevelt Room; taken and released June 16.
(L-R): BP CEO Tony Hayward, BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg, BP General Counsel Rupert Bondy, BP Managing Director Robert Dudley, Senior Obama Advisor Valerie Jarrett, Labor Secy Hilda Solis, Attorney General Eric Holder, Biden, Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Rahm Emanuel also attended.
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The buzz is Joe Biden was tapped as the point man----and reportedly told BP---"you give us $20B or we'll take it from you." Biden is the person to watch like a hawk w/ $20B campaign funds floating around.
Keep in mind Ohaha put Biden in charge of the $2 trillion stimulus pkg and that millions in stimulus are being hidden in the states for endangered Dems (unused portions then wire-transferred offshore to numbered accounts?) Read on.
Offshore fraudster had links to fund run by relatives of Biden
Reuters on Yahoo.com | 2/23/09 | BY Ajay Kamalakaran
EXCERPT --- A fund of hedge funds run by two members of VP Joe Biden's family was marketed exclusively by firms controlled by Texas financier Allen Stanford, charged by regulators with an $8 billion fraud, the Wall Street Journal said.
The $50 million fund was jointly branded between the Bidens' Paradigm Global Advisors LLC and a Stanford Financial Group entity, and was known as the Paradigm Stanford Capital Management Core Alternative Fund, the paper said.
Stanford-related companies marketed the fund to investors and also invested about $2.7 million of their own money in the fund, the paper said, citing a lawyer for Paradigm.
Paradigm Global Advisors is owned through a holding company by the vice president's son, Hunter, and Joe Biden's brother, James, according to the paper. Paradigm's attorney, Marc LoPresti, who represents Hunter Biden and James Biden, as well as Paradigm, told the paper he did not know which Stanford entity invested the roughly $2.7 million. He told the paper the Bidens never met or communicated with Stanford.
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QUESTION While we’re on the subject of slush funds, where did all of Ohaha's so-called ‘Stimulus’ money go?............
ANSWER Most of the stim is still in Washington---controlled by Biden and Ohaha. Some of it is hidden in the states with endangered Dems---ballyhooed under the guise of "creating jobs."
CASE IN POINT In the state of NJ, investigative news reports say Ohaha sent $14.5B stim that just disappeared......as incumbent Dem gov (ex-Goldman Sachs head) was trying for reelection. The Dim lost even after Biden/Ohaha came into the state several times and Ohaha ads ran relentlessly on pricey NY media.
Mother Jones mag reported the real amt of the bailouts was $14 trillion --- the $750 TARP was just a diversion. GANGSTER GOVERNMENT MIGHT SCAM TRILLIONS USING THE MADOFF MO: Madoff created a labyrinth of interrelated international funds, institutions and financial entities of almost unparalleled complexity and breadth......with assets and businesses in miltiple places overseas that hid thievery, money launderering and tax evasion.
Add government fraud to the Ohaha list of crimes.
Don’t believe the hype from ABC. They are trying to help Obama and BP get this oil spill off of the front page. No-one is getting their money on the gulf and BP is gearing up to split.
Here is an oil spill report from yesterday(the local emergency managers are finding plenty of oil):
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/07/louisiana_authorities_report_o_14.html
See post #30. The oil is still out there and all over LA. This whole article is BS for Obama and BP’s benefit. Anderson Cooper had Nunheuser on last night and they said BP is trying to sneak their equipment out of their parrish, they are not cutting checks to the fishermen,the money has not been put into the so called trust yet and other outrageous reports. He said the Coast Guard has become nothing but PR spokesmen for BP and Obama.
The biggest story that no-one is covering is WHERE IS THE DAMN MONEY? Thanks for posting your report.
According to this site, http://www.asknumbers.com/VolumeConversion.aspx, 1 bbl is equivalent to ~5.6 cu ft. If 200000 bbls have been spilled, that’s ~1.2 million cubic feet.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%285.6*200000%29^%281%2F3%29 shows that to be a cube ~105’ on a side.
That’s a surprisingly-small volume!
Not according to this article.
“I think I recall Rush saying early on in this disaster that nature would deal with this spill in its own way, and he was excoriated for it. Evidently, Rush was right again.” ~ rightwingintelligentsia
Let’s rehearse it, shall we?:
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April 29, 2010 RUSH: Our official climatologist, Dr. Roy Spencer has just sent me something. I’ve been wondering about this. He must have been reading my mind. We’ve got 5,000 barrels a day being spilled from the rig, and Dr. Spencer looked into it. You know, we’ve talked of this before. There’s natural seepage into oceans all over the world from the ocean floor of oil and the ocean’s pretty tough, it just eats it up. Dr. Spencer looked into this. You know the seepage from the floor of the Gulf is exactly 5,000 barrels a day, throughout the whole Gulf of Mexico now. It doesn’t seep out all in one giant blob like this thing has, but the bottom line here is: Even places that have been devastated by oil slicks like... What was that place up in Alaska where the guy was drunk, ran a boat aground? (interruption) Prince William Sound. They were wiping off the rocks with Dawn dishwater detergent and paper towels and so forth. The place is pristine now.
You do survive these things. I’m not advocating don’t care about it hitting the shore or coast and whatever you can do to keep it out of there is fine and dandy, but the ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and was left out there. It’s natural. It’s as natural as the ocean water is. (interruption) Well, the turtles may take a hit for a while, but so what? So do we! Hell, remember that story we had at the beginning of the show: The barred owl that flew into the windshield of the Wentzville, Missouri, fire truck, and they got to the fire and the thing was still hanging on out there. It had a broken wing and they took it to some animal veterinary sanctuary or hospital or something. Just give it a pain pill! Why not? That’s what they had for us, and we don’t even launch ourselves into the windshields of fire trucks
[...] Here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2505164/posts?page=102#102
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05/13/2010 RUSH: How many weeks have we been waiting for the entire southern coast and the East Coast of Florida to be drenched in oil? We’re supposed to by now have seen thousands of dead birds and pelicans, all of it covered in black gold, and so far, so far it’s not an event. I know it still could be, and I know the media is hoping it still will be, but it isn’t yet. I mean there’s one dead dolphin, they found some sea turtles, but they don’t know why. We don’t have dead birds yet. We don’t have any of that. Now they’re talking about it going to Texas. ....
Oil naturally seeps int the gulf all the time. Check this photo out, by NASA form May 13, 2006! The streaks you see are NATURAL OIL SLICKS...........
[....] Commentary and photos here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2505164/posts?page=119#119
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04/30/2010: RUSH: Halliburton poured the cement. You wait, Halliburton’s going to be brought up to Washington for show trials. Democrats have wanted that since the Iraq war. If they can blame this on Halliburton (laughing) and say that Cheney somehow approved the project, even as an ex-CEO, oh-ho-ho, they may not even need Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
[...] Here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2505164/posts?page=82#82
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05/03/2010 Rush on the timeline:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2505164/posts?page=93#93
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“This was a problem we ran into with Ixtoc, we never found the oil,” McKinney said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2505164/posts?page=139#139
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Madcap environmentalism is partially to blame for the massive oil spill in the Gulf. ~ Dr. Zero
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2505164/posts?page=104#104
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Lots more in this thread:
‘Obama’s Katrina’: an Illustrated Timeline
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2505164/posts
Great find!
A friend who lives down there says that we’re not seeing the PODS OF DOLPHINS that are turning up not just dead, but COOKED, the same with birds.
I, for one, cannot figure out how this could be a surprise. The $20B was NEVER meant for the shrimpers......this was another slush fund for the Ovomitons.
Feinberg never provided exact details about who gets money and who doesn't. When Kenny brazenly said on broadcast TV that he had to convene an "exploratory commission to define what constitutes a claim,"......reasonable people knew the poor shrimpers would get nothing. We knew then the "czar" was under orders to stash the slush fund.
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BP claims czar Kenneth Feinberg drawing fire from Attorney General Bill McCollum
TampaBay.com ^ | 7/6/2010 | Marc Caputo
FR Posted July 08, 2010 by Qbert
With the authority to dole out $20 billion to BP oil spill victims, Kenneth Feinberg has yet to provide exact details about who gets money and who doesn't. But the few specifics Feinberg has mentioned are drawing fire from Florida's attorney general, Bill McCollum, a Republican running for governor.
McCollum said he was concerned that Feinberg was using an overly strict interpretation of Florida law that he could use to deny claims. Feinberg, however, said he's not trying to restrict payouts. "I am not adversarial to anyone in Florida," Feinberg said. "I want Floridians to get what is due them. I am working at their side to help them. And this money is going to be distributed for them." [Snip]
Feinberg said he's trying to "bend over backward to help eligible claimants in Florida and throughout the Gulf." The key word: eligible. Feinberg said he'll come up with "an expansive'' definition in the coming weeks.
But when he appeared before the U.S. House Committee on Small Business last week, Feinberg said he would use "Florida law'' as one measure of eligibility.
When asked about whether Florida businesses could make a claim based on "the public misperception of tarballs on beaches," Feinberg testified that it was a "tough'' issue. "Clearly, under Florida law, I think it's fair to say that it's not compensable. If there's no physical damage to the beaches and it's a public perception, I venture to say that it is not compensable," Feinberg said, noting "that's in this area where some discretion's going to have to be exercised." Those are fighting words for McCollum. (Excerpt) Read more at tampabay.com ...
Does your friend have any photos, or other physical things one might reasonablely look at to see that truth? On photo bucket, flikr or some other free hosting site?
BTW -cooked? As in BBQ’d or died from heat exposure? I’m curious.....
If so, this would be a cover up at least as big as The Event....
I used 7.2 gallons per cu ft but I think the correct number is 7.48 so my numbers were a little off. There’s a lot of crude and gases that have came out of the well but I don’t think it would come close to being 500’ deep across an area the size of the state of WA. That was all I was trying to point out.
I wonder if anyone has confronted Simmons with this fact?
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