Good point. The PEMEX Ixtoc spill in 1978 was larger than the BP spill, and lasted for nine months(!) before Red Adair stopped it.
PEMEX oil washed up all over the Gulf coast - but PEMEX claimed sovereign immunity and didn’t pay a dime of compensation.
You are exactly right. Don’t you realize that you’ve made my point?
Corexita (known by other names) was used in massive amounts in this particular spill, and no other spill. It’s very DESIGN is to sink oil to the sea floor. While a snappy, aesthetic idea, to make things look good to the boaters & swimmers, it is a sentence of doom for seafood. Their eggs lie on the ocean floor. This is why I continue to warn everyone that this will not be felt for two or three years.
Quite honestly, I’m a tad puzzled here.
Are we conservatives going the way of the libs where we dismiss established science so we can hold to our political ideas? We conservatives rightfully reject the nutjob enviroscrewballs. But are we now going to reject long standing scientific fact (not theory), just for a political win?
I knew that global warming was a crock of shit within the first five minutes I heard the theory. To believe it would require every student of science to toss out everthing they ever knew, in order to buy it.
Let’s not give National Review credence on this; they are wrong. They are operating via reflex; “earth friendly = left wing libs”
We’re better than this, folks. It is truly possible to be earth friendly and conservative. Especially when you understand science.
What is wrong here is the current administration. This should be considered a national scandal.