What the tree hugging eco-nazis fail to mention about big bad oil is that nature spills more per year than any man caused spill. Right now, liberals have their panties in a bunch over the BP accident. Perhaps they should pull their panties out out their cracks and chill out. The gulf will recover quickly as nature does. Stopping drilling is just spin to pacify stupid leftists.
Imagine if the White House had done its job from day one. We may have contained most of this oil from reaching coast line. Unfortunately, Obama was preoccupied demonizing Wall Street and Arizonans for over a week.
A study by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is the first to quantify the amount of oil residue in seafloor sediments that result from natural petroleum seeps off Santa Barbara, California.
The study shows the oil content of sediments is highest closest to the seeps and tails off with distance, creating an oil fallout shadow. It estimates the amount of oil in the sediments down current from the seeps to be the equivalent of approximately 8-80 Exxon Valdez oil spills.
NASA scientists find that tons of oil seep into the Gulf of Mexico each year. Twice an Exxon Valdez spill worth of oil seeps into the Gulf of Mexico every year, according to a new study that will be presented January 27 at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
But the oil isn't destroying habitats or wiping out ocean life. The ooze is a natural phenomena that's been going on for many thousands of years, according to Roger Mitchell, Vice President of Program Development at the Earth Satellite Corporation (EarthSat) in Rockville Md. "The wildlife have adapted and evolved and have no problem dealing with the oil," he said.
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"The gulf will recover quickly as nature does."
ReplyDeleteTell this to the people who made their living fishing the gulf and may be out of a job for the rest of their lives. No natural oil seepage has had the ability to do that.
"But the oil isn't destroying habitats or wiping out ocean life."
ReplyDeleteHere are some pictures of this "overblown" oil leak, which is definitely "[not] destroying habitats":
http://www.propublica.org/images/articles/gt_oil_water_jindal_475x250_100526.jpg
http://images.smh.com.au/2010/05/24/1502247/oil420-420x0.jpg
http://gdb.rferl.org/6A7CF240-811D-4BE5-8E05-8EA930219610_w527_s.jpg
http://beat.bodoglife.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/oil-spill.jpg
http://www.cfnews13.com/uploadedImages/Stories/Local/oil.jpg
...and here is a picture of some wildlife, "adapted and evolved" and having no trouble at all being completely covered in oil:
http://media.nj.com/business_impact/photo/bpjpg-705a27b78b9f5035_large.jpg
...just thought you'd like to see a few photos of the disaster that could have been prevented if only we'd pacified the "stupid leftists" who have voiced concerns about this kind of economic and environmental disaster for years.