Well the BP engineers aren’t treating this like the rantings of environmentalist whackos nor is the Coast Guard. The Louisiana fishing industry has a temporary ban in certain areas.
Florida senator Bill Nelson said
“You are talking about massive economic loss to our tourism, our beaches, to our fisheries, very possibly disruption of our military testing and training, which is in the Gulf of Mexico,” he told CNN’s “State of the Union” program.
I said its a bad situation, you disagree with that?
If this fix does not work their only other choice right now “is drilling a first relief well one week ago, but that will take up to three months to drill — by which time some 20 million gallons of crude could have streamed into the sea”
So if a politician says it, it must be Gospel. Didn’t Obama tell us that if we didn’t pass his Economic StuffItToUs that our nation would crumble. Of course Bill Nelson is going to go against BP on this one because Florida has a vested interest in all this what with the potential of multi-billion dollar lawsuits just beyond the horizon. My view may be twisted, but I look at this as a great potential for economic stimulus. Look at the myriad of “cleanup” jobs that will be created.
Of course. Political correctness precludes andything else.
"“You are talking about massive economic loss to our tourism, our beaches, to our fisheries, very possibly disruption of our military testing and training, which is in the Gulf of Mexico,” he told CNN’s “State of the Union” program."
Hype.
"I said its a bad situation, you disagree with that?"
Yes, it's an unfortunate occurrence, but hardly the unprecedented catastrophe it is being made out to be. Google "Ixtoc oil spill". Also read up on what Saddam Hussein did in the Persian Gulf before the invasion of Kuwait.
http://www.gomr.mms.gov/PI/PDFImages/ESPIS/3/3973.pdf