[IMR 4350]

I don’t know what they think, but in my opinion it’s total BS.

You would have more fumes coming off a freshly laid asphalt road than you would have coming off of the oil that is washing up after having been baking in the sun for weeks.

[hennie pennie]

They're not talking about fumes from the oil on the shoreline; they were referring to the fumes from the controlled burns -- from the oil FIRES creating toxic fumes.

Then, also, there's some talk that the BP oil rig had hit a huge reservoir of methane, and/OR that as sea life dies from the oil that the decomposition creates high levels of methane.

Some reports state that levels of methane are ONE MILLION TIMES higher than normal.

I have NO idea as to the veracity of this.