Posted on 06/19/2010 7:14:59 AM PDT by raptor22
The editors of Investor’s Business Daily write: Environment: Our growing addiction to alternative energy was killing aquatic life in the Gulf long before the Deepwater Horizon spill. Abandoning oil will kill more and also release more carbon dioxide into the air.
President Obama sees the oil spill as a chance to make the planet a greener place by weaning us off fossil fuels and pushing us toward alternative energy. The earth and the Gulf of Mexico have indeed been getting greener lately, thanks to agricultural runoff due to a mandated surge in biofuels such as ethanol.
Before the first gallon gushed from Deepwater Horizon, there existed an 8,500 square mile “dead zone” below the Mississippi River Delta, roughly the size of Connecticut and Delaware combined.
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they are worse..no clean up available
We don’t really hear about this dead zone (9000 square miles) do we? Why is that? Big Ag has already paid their blackmail to the government. Now BP gets to pay their share. And yes, it’s worse than the oil spill, but pictures of dead ocean don’t sell like pictures of oil covered animals.
Amazing how Congress and the lame stream media keep ignoring science in their quest to damn “big oil”. The National Academy of Science data goes back to 2008 and odds are, most have never heard of it.
The previously existing “dead zone” aside, the economy along the Gulf coast was in shambles BEFORE the blowout. The importation of seafood products, crashed housing values, and the overall recession is now being attributed to BP. Actual causes are being ignored by the government, the media, the left, and even now some on the right.
Biofuels cause more destruction to the planet than the people in the GOM will ever see, including this oil spill. When those who demonize oil let me know when the life and animal species in and around the Gulf of Mexico has become extinct and that the destuction of land or sea is so complete that it can never heal itself or return to its former state, - the most ‘successful biofuel crops’ have done this and more - Then we can talk.
Not to mention the loss of soil - erosion - caused by mother nature in the GOM.
And there is more that could be added to the endless list, but it would all downplay the current culprit. Extremely high bacteria levels down here, maybe the oil kill it, and later this year we will have the inevitable red tide which kills everything it’s close too.
The water was nice this morning at Panama City Beach and the beaches not crowded.
The corn was and will be planted whether there’s ethanol or not.
Retards.
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