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(over 750) Gulf boats having trouble finding any oil: US official
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 7/21/10 | AFP

Posted on 07/21/2010 10:50:55 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

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To: 21twelve

This is the most wonderful greenspin . You could go to work for the greens for big money. No laugh. I enjoyed reading your post.


81 posted on 07/21/2010 8:41:20 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama .......yes.......is fascist... ...He meets every diagnostic of history>)
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To: NormsRevenge

What’s wrong with that. They are making progress.


82 posted on 07/21/2010 8:41:44 PM PDT by Ptarmigan (Remember The Great Ptarmigan/Rabbit War!)
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To: Ptarmigan

I mean some progress. There needs to be cleaning still in the marshes and beaches.


83 posted on 07/21/2010 8:43:18 PM PDT by Ptarmigan (Remember The Great Ptarmigan/Rabbit War!)
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To: Candor7
Thanks! I was going to mention something about stopping all drilling for oil in the Gulf. Or perhaps how the oil companies could stop their polluting by buying some windmills. But I figured that would be too over the top. A good yarn needs to be believable.
84 posted on 07/21/2010 9:00:19 PM PDT by 21twelve ( UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES MY ARSE: "..now begin the work of remaking America."-Obama, 1/20/09)
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To: 21twelve

Its the butterfly effect! LOL.


85 posted on 07/21/2010 9:13:50 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama .......yes.......is fascist... ...He meets every diagnostic of history>)
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To: mojitojoe

>>”...the destruction of billions of salmon and herring eggs.[7][22] “

Herring eggs? Maybe. Salmon eggs? No way. Salmon eggs are “laid” and “hatched” upstream, in fresh water; not in th ocean where the spill was.

Calls the credibility of the report into question.

DG


86 posted on 07/22/2010 1:17:00 AM PDT by DoorGunner ("Rom 11: until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; 26 and so, all Israel will be saved")
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To: Mears

Way-all, I jus seen that daggone ol storie about the dang ol pipe-a-ling that done got busted over there in Dollian or somefin and wonder if theys gonna let them ol photogs go voer there and shot the gooses and ducks.


87 posted on 07/22/2010 2:56:33 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Hitler Was Their Fate and their Fate Could Not Be Stayed. Von Braustitch.)
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To: Lazamataz

[slaps forehead]....dang; THAT explains a lot.


88 posted on 07/22/2010 5:02:55 AM PDT by RightOnline
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To: hattend

I suggest they give ‘em all submarines and............................naw, never mind.


89 posted on 07/22/2010 5:04:36 AM PDT by RightOnline
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To: 21twelve

I can’t wait for Hollywood to green-light the first three films in your “GULF-BOMB” trilogy. Michael Bay will direct.


90 posted on 07/22/2010 5:23:48 AM PDT by agere_contra (Obama did more damage to the Gulf economy in one day than Pemex/Ixtoc did in nine months)
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To: NormsRevenge

They had a similar experience with the Ixtoc spill. The oil vanished, or more likely dissolved and/or evaporated.


91 posted on 07/22/2010 6:24:54 AM PDT by MSF BU (++)
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To: JohnBrowdie
GEORGE BUSH TOOK IT!!

Bush and his Big Oil buddy's skimmed at night! They made MILIONS!!!

92 posted on 07/22/2010 6:26:55 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: 21twelve
Either that, or nature, with a bit of our help, is dealing with the spill.

Anyone who has ignored a garden, yard or farm field for a year can tell you about mother nature's recuperative abilities.

93 posted on 07/22/2010 6:44:43 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: Brown Deer; PaForBush

love that graphic... but for the cnn cameras, you need to zoom in on the can, crank up the magnification to where a 10” pipe is shown at fullscreen size on a libtards 65” super-hi-def plasma screen, and run the loop 24/7 for max ‘effect’...


94 posted on 07/22/2010 7:14:31 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: mojitojoe

Good job.


95 posted on 07/22/2010 7:35:36 AM PDT by patton (Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
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To: NormsRevenge

Exactly what BP wanted. Hide the evidence by using Corexit.


96 posted on 07/22/2010 8:24:53 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: NormsRevenge

Probably vaporized or is too deep.


97 posted on 07/22/2010 8:33:43 AM PDT by upcountryhorseman (An old fashioned conservative)
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To: NormsRevenge
I'm trying to figure out which scenario benefits Obama the most: no oil gushing or massive amounts gushing.

Is the fact that we're not being bombarded with any more satellite images of the slick and photos of mud soaked birds an indication of the LACK of oil or CENSORSHIP?

The truth is out there, just where the f*ck is it?

98 posted on 07/22/2010 9:23:10 AM PDT by FReepaholic (The problem is they do not fear us.)
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To: MSF BU

I posted this back on June 1 as some background history on these things for those getting all hysterical. Not to say the BP spill isn’t bad, but it is not the end of fishing, tourism, etc. in the Gulf forever as folks were saying. But note the comments on the dispersent at the end.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/01/gulf-oil-spill-ixtoc-ecological-tipping-point

SNIP:

But although Ixtoc was a big disaster, it did not develop into the long-term catastrophe that scientists initially thought was inevitable.

“This is not to say there were no consequences. Just that the evidence is that these are not as dramatic as we feared,” says Luis Soto, a marine biologist from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. “After about two years the recuperation was well on the way.”

Wes Tunnell, now at the Texas Harte Research Institute, took samples before and after the oil arrived in Texas that showed an immediate 80% drop in the number of organisms living between the grains of sand that provide food for shore birds and crabs.

“Sampling a couple of years after the spill indicated the populations were back to normal,” he says. Six years after Ixtoc 1 exploded it was hard to find any evidence of the oil, he says. “It is rather baffling to us all. We don’t really know where it went.”

But although their message is hopeful, those who studied the Ixtoc disaster warn against assuming the gulf is automatically heading for another quick comeback.

Ixtoc 1 stood in just 50 metres (165ft) of water, while Deepwater Horizon was drilling 1,500 metres below the surface. It is also likely that the quantity of chemical dispersants being used today is significantly larger, potentially blocking the work of the oil-eating micro-organisms.


99 posted on 07/22/2010 10:20:12 AM PDT by 21twelve ( UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES MY ARSE: "..now begin the work of remaking America."-Obama, 1/20/09)
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To: NormsRevenge

Since the boats are there, maybe they can get busy killing dolphins — http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2557155/posts


100 posted on 07/22/2010 11:12:09 AM PDT by BenLurkin (Will must be the harder, courage the bolder, spirit must be the more, as our might lessens.)
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