[UCANSEE2]

To posit that people and plants face a danger because of the evaporation of oil dispersant introduced into the Gulf of Mexico and evaporating is somehow greater than the volatility of the gas those people pump into their cars each hour, is patently absurd.

AND YET, plants and birds are being killed inland. No one yet knows why.

The EPA and NALCO both posit that cleanup workers should not be exposed to breathing in the vapors from the leaking OIL and the DISPERSANT for more than four hours.

If it can cause no harm, why would they say this?

[OldDeckHand]

"AND YET, plants and birds are being killed inland. No one yet knows why."

This is the same kind of logic that causes people to link vaccinations to autism. Just because two things happen around the same time, doesn't mean that they're related.