You sound almost, dare I say, liberal with your castigation of a Reaganest outlook to the crisis. Where’s the sense of balance? The resistance to the facts on the ground. It’s almost liberal in it’s misplaced hysteria.
This just in, the spill did happen at the perfect time in the temperature loop and yes it did burn off and no it doesn’t sink, dispersed or not. Dispersant simply dispersed the oil and it was evaporated out that much quicker. The oil that came out of that particular find is of the highest quality, light sweet crude, full of methane. It would burn magnificently under a cruel Gulf sun. If what you are seeing wash up is a tar ball, guess what, the worst has passed. Tar is the inert leftovers of a volatile brew of crude. It’s the burnt charcoal briquet in the grill.
But I agree we do need the oil, since nothing has been done to replace it since the Carter years, and our dependency on foreign oil has just grown over the years.
Kinghorse, get off your high horse. Resistance to facts on the ground? - Facts from who? Misplaced hysteria? - Nah, that's liberals calling Tea Partiers racist.
Look, the article gave no real reason or explanation as to where the bulk of the oil is, or where it went, only guesses. That amount of crude doesn't disappear overnight.