Oil Spill

Fregramis · Senior Member

Oil Spill

lundbaek · Profuse Pontificator

Others have expressed concerns the same as Fregamis'. I cannot yet envision the oil spill contaminating 1/3 of the seas; that's a lot of water to poison. But add to the oil the the chemicals being used to disperse the oil spill.

http://www.naturalnews.com/028974_Corexit_dispersants.html

"On the toxicity question, you could hardly find a more dangerous combination of poisons to dump into the Gulf of Mexico than what has been revealed in Corexit. The Corexit 9527 product has been designated a "chronic and acute health hazard" by the EPA. It is made with 2-butoxyethanol, a highly toxic chemical that has long been linked to the health problems of cleanup crews who worked on the Exxon Valdez spill.

"A newer Corexit recipe dubbed the "9500 formula" contains dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate, a detergent chemical that's also found in laxatives. What do you suppose happens to the marine ecosystem when fish and sea turtles ingest this chemical through their gills and skin? And just as importantly, what do you think happens to the human beings who are working around this chemical, breathing in its fumes and touching it with their skin?"

arbilad · Head Chef

Yeah, it's a bad situation. We know that the prophecies will be fulfilled somehow. We just don't know if this is one of the ways.
It's not commonly known that oil reservoirs generally don't run out, they just stop pumping because it becomes harder to get the oil and economically unrewarding. And reservoirs previously thought to be dry have later produced oil.
In other words, don't wait for it to run out.

Mahonri · Senior Bucketkeeper

I've heard rumor that the Gulf of Mexico is soon to be renamed "Obama's Half Black Sea".

I'm not buying it.

arbilad · Head Chef

That's funny. Of course, there are rumors that Obama's father was more arabic than black, but it's difficult to know such things.
I do know that this is shaping up to be bad. How bad we won't know. Mexico had a worse spill 40 years ago, but we're shackled by environmentalists and bleeding hearts.