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.
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.
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.
lol sealife tripled since the spill.
Thats almost as funny as “democrats care about the people”
Bump.
If you had predicted that a few months after the oil spill, the fish population would be a lot larger than before the spill, you would have been characterized as a typical right-wing, environment-hating crazy. Who’s laughing now? Another leftist the-sly-is-falling scenario has been played out, and once again the leftists are dead wrong about practically everything they predicted.
Oil has been seeping into the gulf for millenia. It’s natural to begin with, its a base food for a huge part of the eco-system: bacteria eat it and are eaten in turn. I’m not remotely surprised that the Gulf is doing fine.
I remember at the time that some FReepers were raving, really raving about the oil-spill being the literal end of life on earth. That was an eyeopener!
A lot of people seem to believe that crude oil is more deadly than Plutonium. They consult insanely one-sided fright-sites to keep themselves in a state of paroxysm not noticeably different from that of the AGW cultists.
In reality, the nonhuman part of the Gulf is doing great: Obama crushed the Gulf’s economy (the human part) by banning drilling and over-regulating use of the gulf littoral. He’s the reason the Gulf economy is hurting - not BP.
We live on the west coast of Florida and it has not, up until now, affected fishing in the least. Hubby yesterday brought home his limit of gag grouper (of course they’re talking about stopping any harvest of those come January) and snapper. They go fishing every week and have not seen any decline whatsoever (of course they’re fishing close to shore) no more than a couple miles offshore, so I couldn’t know what deep water is like.
You don't say.
EXXON VALDEZ REDUX!
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Sea Life Flourishes in the Gulf
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A few months ago one of Glenn Beck’s researchers tracked down a
New York Times article concerning a hughmongous oil spill into the
Persian Gulf done as a vindictive act of Saddam and Co. during the
first Gulf War.
I can’t recall the exact proportion, but it was HUGH compared to
what happened to BP’s (and others) disaster in The Gulf of Mexico.
But even The New York Times noted that testing a year or so later showed that
there was no detecable negaive effects on the Gulf’s fish and vegetation.
I guess some folks just don’t realize that oil seeps from the ocean floor
LONG before man came along to drill for oil.
Seems like the fish etc. have learned to deal with the crude oil
over millions of year.
But don’t expect to hear that thesis from the thousands of professors
of enviromental sciences. Heck, they might not get tons of Federal money
in the shape of grants from the NSF, etc.
There has always been seepage of oil in the Gulf and warm Gulf waters handle oil differently. When there was a large oil spill on the Mississippi...a lot of the oil ended up on farm lands...farmers wouldn’t let it be cleaned up...they knew organisms would eat the oil helping the soil to become rich in nutrients...so all these enviromentalist...are proving to be nuts...