Eighty-six days of gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico was finally stopped July the 15th.
Now, less than two weeks later, the officials and the scientists are saying the “natural bacteria” and “evaporation” is the reason we cannot “see” any “visible oil on the surface” of the water.
The issue everyone has skirted along atop the water is this: Petroleum Products Are Known Carcinogenics. It will take decaes before the true effects of this "Accident" is fully known. Where will BP Oil be then?
Pardon me boys is this the We-got-cha-choochoo?
Oil and water do not mix...it will float and it will ball up together but disappear? Has anyone forgotten Tropical Storm Bonnie? It made its way into the Gulf and pushed the waters inland…to hide; did it not?
Most of the marshlands of the Louisiana Bayous are visible only from the edge of the gulf and the mouth of the Mississippi River. Although BP Oil has managed to make man made inroads over the years into the marshes (which causes the marshlands to collapse) it is still a dense area and difficult to test as far as the penetration of oil is concerned. Add to that, as seen on the Today Show, many of the people living inland in those marshes survive because of the marshes. Marshes that may well be contaminated with oil for years to come.
Just saying that we cannot see the sheen of oil on the surface of the water or visible tar balls on the beaches does not mean that those millions of gallons of oil were eaten naturally by bacteria or evaporated into the atmosphere.
What a nice fairy tale that would be if it were true.
Birds are still being found dead and there are still huge oil globs washed up as far East as Dauphin Island in Mobile, Alabama. Those beaches are plainly visible to anyone who walks on them as is Gulf Shores yet the New York Times made no mention of what was being found in Mobile Bay or along Pensacola beaches, though to give them credit they did show a tiny picture of a “tar ball” on Dauphin Island…lets have the Blue Angels do a fly by there and see what they find.
As a southerner by birth, I can hazard a guess. They will find Gulf Shore residents and the Navy families still silently walking the beaches with black plastic garbage bags and rakes trying to clean their beloved beaches of the tar and praying the wildlife in the bayous and the bays will escape the waters of the Gulf until we, the humans responsible for them, clean up our act.
Are we responsible for our own actions?
BP Oil, are you responsible for your own actions or will sending Tony to Russia be the end of what you plan on doing?
Shall we look forward to another “accident” after another twenty years… on the other side of the globe?
barbara bethard
