Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

[Monarch Butterfly]

From the interfrastructurist.com article on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill at this link:

The oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico is now ballooning into a full-fledged environmental catastrophe, one that could eclipse the Exxon Valdez. New reports claim that the spill is five times worse than first thought, and is leaking around 5,000 barrels (as opposed to the 1,000 barrels of the initial estimate) into the sea.

So just how bad will the fallout be? And what are the options (not to mention the costs) for clean-up? The folks at Oil & Gas have compiled a graph that details the precise numbers — and some of the results are pretty disturbing (the spill is covering an area the size of Jamaica!). The fact that the disaster occurred off the coast of New Orleans — a city that’s already had more than its fair share of natural disasters — only worsens the sense that the government, and BP, the operator of the sunken oil rig, should have done more.

 

[urbandreamer]

Maybe they should take all the Bushites and make them immigrate to Oil Island. Then light the torch.

 

[Second_in_pie]

Or turn the ruins of the oil rig into a resort catered towards southerners. See if you can strike it rich! It's like Vegas for Texan oil barons!

Case in point, this is just the tip of the iceberg as to why oil's bad. And this is pretty bad. I can only imagine this turning terribly wrong. The oil's already reaching the shores of the gulf, and as much as I think that region's filled with backwards hicks, the environment would likely take a century to recover, even with human help. They're forecasting 3 months till the oil's tapped off. It's been about 4 days now.

 

[Edward Skira]

Gwen Morgan, former head of Encana, had a pretty strong pro-ocean drilling piece in the Globe a few weeks back. Said we shouldn't worry about a little oil leaking into the ocean. Eat them words Gwen!

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

drill baby drill! & spill baby spill!