Posted on 11/15/2010 7:00:40 AM PST by kingattax
The Great Oil Spill Panic of 2010 will go down in history as mass hysteria on par with the Dutch tulip bubble.
The catastrophists were wrong (again) about the Deep Water Horizon oil spill. There have been no major fish die-offs. On the contrary, a comprehensive new study says that in some of the most heavily fished areas of the Gulf of Mexico, various forms of sea life, from shrimp to sharks, have seen their populations triple since before the spill. Some species, including shrimp and croaker, did even better.
And meanwhile, the media has greatly exaggerated damage found in studies about coral, which is in some ways more vulnerable to oil and dispersant. Most of it is doing fine.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
I urge everyone who thinks Obama and his administration did a “bang up” job on the oil spill to read the following:
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/
They have been documenting, chapter and verse, the fallout.
And it ain’t pretty, folks.
Who says the fish ecosystem doesn’t like oil? They are claiming lowered fishing but how do they not know it wasn’t the oil that spurred the growth of the fish populations which would mean oil drilling/spilling helps the environment.
Pray for America
How ironic, the same thing happened after the Exxon Valdez spill was cleaned up.
Could that be because there was no fishing going on for 10 months??
There may be more fish but that does not mean they are safe to eat.
I don't trust the gov't saying these fish are now safe to eat...I would like to see a true independent review and testing.
It doesn’t matter if Obama did a “bang up job”. The MSM is going to give him a pass on it. It will never be used against him.
Obama will be gone in two years, but the greenies and their anti-petroleum propaganda machine will still be going strong unless we take a rational look at oil production risk and rewards.
Bacteria eat the oil, other critters eat the bacteria, and on up the food chain...More food for the bacteria translates to more food all the way up.
I would like to see a true independent review and testing.
Me, too. I work in the oil industry, and I don't trust the government, either.
I believe that this disaster could have been nipped much earlier except for government interference.
The entire coal, oil and gas industies have been blackmailed by Obama and friends.
Another company at a different location was attacked by the same environmental group, rolled over and spent millions to capture and ship away runoff, hired an environmental staff and their reef ten years later was pronounced dead. Reliable story? The first story I learned of first hand from a company engineer who was there, the second I read about.
The Exxon spill is/was very different....Water temperature had/has a lot to do with recovery.
Could that be because microbes specially adapted to eat naturally occurring oil from seeps have been having the feast of their lives?
Could it be that fish feed on these microbes?
Could it be that oil is an excellent (albeit expensive and messy) fertilizer?
Could it be that Bonehead Gore and the rest of the enviro-wacko lobby were wrong about an oil spill ruining the Gulf's ecology forever?
Lou Dolinar discredits the National Review Online.
The failure to report the actual findings of the USF marine biology department accurately and fully is a lie by omission so large you can sail a leaking supertanker through it.
For reality based reporting, try http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/
Please let me state this, for those who are not scientifically inclined:
Oil is a nature killer.
Take me up on this challenge. Go to your nearest garden center/hardware store, etc. Examine the ingredient label of the “bug killers.” You’ll note that nearly every one of them contains an oil product as one of the first ingredients.
Why? Because it denies the birth of a next generation of critters.
Oil coats eggs. The eggs of sea creatures as well as land creatures. Science teaches us that eggs need to “breathe” in order to be fresh; oil prevents this. Btw, if you have any old cookbooks...people USED TO ask if coating chicken eggs (like we have in cartons) with wax or oil would make them last longer. It doesn’t, and that is why we cannot buy eggs treated this way. What, you don’t think the growers would do this if they thought it would make their product last longer????
In any event, oil seals eggs, rendering them dead. We are not going to feel the effects now; we will feel them in the next two or three years, when there is no longer any Gulf progeny. Unless some smart set of scientists did a Noah’s Ark type of rescue of adults and eggs, as this mess unfolded, this is going to ruin the Gulf seafood business, down the road.
If you’re a fan of Gulf seafood products, I suggest you buy up what you can now, and carefully process it to go in your freezer.
I have no dog in this fight, as I’m allergic to seafood. But I hate to know what is going to befall our mom & pop seafood businesses in the Gulf.
All those fisherman are experienced. You're a lot safer with their observations and tests than "good enough for government testers".
Your post seems to ignore the naturally occurring phenomenon that has been going on forever. Oil and hydrocarbons have been a part of the gulf ecosystem before we ever considered fishing and consuming them. Nore damage is and has been done by increasing the flow of the Mississippi into the gulf and the introduction of phosphates than oil ever will have.
Quite interesting that you ascribe some level of real wisdom to the very scientific community that has become self serving and intrusuive, acting as if all that is now is man made and that nature has never before experienced it and we are evil. You have eaten gulf sea food products for generations that have adapted to this natural state and they never hurt you, so what has changed?
Their intent has, they think they can control us with their theories and suppositions. I say no to all of them and acknowledge the creator made the earth for us and these are all part of it, only the hysteria caused by their need to tell us how to live has changed.
Just because the microbes ate the oil does not mean the oil disappeared. Oil breaks down into it's basic forms such as benzine etc which is deadly to humans. The fish eventually ate the microbes.
If you think the fish/shrimp are now safe to eat without accurate unbiased testing I have some Chernobyl fish you would enjoy...you know..the kind that have 3 eyes.
Just because you cannot see it does not mean it's not there.
lol sealife tripled since the spill.
Thats almost as funny as “democrats care about the people”
You sound like an oil is evil denier!!
Go Ducks!
Please tell me you are not comparing natural seeping oil or natural proceses to what happened in the Gulf with an oil slick due to a blowout....
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