Did The Gulf Oil Spill Pull A Houdini?

The Looking Spoon ^ | 8-5-2010 | Jared H. McAndersen

[The Looking Spoon]

All of a sudden according to the Obama administration we're getting reports that the gulf has dodged an ecological bullet? Apparently everything is good, the oil is evaporating.

This...

and

is apparently EVAPORATING like it's....

Does ANYONE buy this crap? Oil gushed into the ocean for MONTHS without end to the tune of 5 million barrels. Liberals begged for straight jackets when Exxon Valdez spilled, at its highest estimate, spilled about 750,000 barrels. The ecosystem there STILL hasn't totally recovered.

By the most liberal estimate the gulf oil spill is more than 5 times worse and we're supposed to believe the problem...just went away?

Something tells me the people who put this report together are going to admit they made a mistake sometime after November 2. I don't know...just a hunch.

But don't ask me, I'm a peon whose conservative brain can't comprehend how common sense is defied...

Also, I'm at war with science.

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[Beowulf9]

What? The sharks had a fish fry, and used up all the oil:)

[unkus]

The whole thing is fishy.

[The Looking Spoon]

LOL! OHHHHHH...thats it!

;-)

[TigersEye]

Nature healed what man inflicted in 1979 Gulf spill Read more: June 10, 2010

" "A lot of the fishermen around here will tell you that the fish never came back,'' says Vega Morales. ``They'll say, `Oh, in the old days, you could catch fish with your hat, it was so easy.' That's how we are, always talking about the one that got away. But the truth is, after maybe nine months or so, it was back to normal." " (Ixtoc 1)

"Soto, who followed the fish and shrimp population off Mexico closely, found to his surprise that for most species the numbers had returned to normal within two years."

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Oil Cleanup Expert Comments on Gulf Spill

"Every year 2 million to 12 million tons of oil naturally seep from the ocean floor and into the sea. In fact, many of the deposits in the Gulf of Mexico were discovered by observing these oil seeps, which is why the hydrocarbon degraders are everywhere, waiting for their “dinner” or fuel. Fishermen should be prepared for the extra catches that are coming because after every major oil spill there’s an explosion of local fish."

"But before a fish explosion can happen, the microorganisms need to be able to get to the oil and digest it. Since oil and water don’t mix, adding a dispersant will accelerate the breakdown of the oil, making it more available to the microorganisms."

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1979's Ixtoc oil well blowout in Gulf of Mexico has startling parallels to current disaster

"Even with those obstacles, fishers still managed to amass an impressive catch in 1979 -- when oil was gushing into the Gulf."

"Researchers in Campeche found shrimping that year enjoyed a high. The total tonnage of seafood caught in the Gulf of Mexico grew by 5.9 percent compared with the previous 12 months, and octopus capture in the Bay of Campeche beat the previous record by 50 percent."

"Tunnell's follow-up research into life near Texas beaches showed that organisms whose populations were apparently reduced by the massive spill replenished themselves within a few years."

[boycott]

Obama is a know-it-all idiot. He knows as much about oil spills as he does the economy.

[sinanju]

Yup, it looks like the Gulf is a special case, as the waters are warm and the continual natural oil seepage over the eons has made for especially voracious oil-chomping bacteria.

And yes, the Gulf recovered amazingly fast from the IXTOC I blowout in ‘79. Not much in the way of chest-beating theatrics as I recall, as Mexico made plain from the start it wasn’t going to pay a dime in compensation to anyone.

[television is just wrong]

I heard on Rush that the warm water and the salt helps break down the oil. That is why the oil is not that bad. The cold weather in Alaska prevented the oil from breaking down.

[TigersEye]

I never even heard of Ixtoc 1 until this well blew out. If it made the news back in ‘79 I must have been on a TV hiatus or something.

[skr]

It’s Obama’s numbers gaming you (and I) are at war with, not science. They are counting statistically without considering the heavy oil that is under the sand or still coating the marshes along the coast.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Maybe they should go look in the marsh...

[The Looking Spoon]

But the question remains...does the broken down oil mean the harm of it to the ecosystem will be abated?

Or will it still be damaging, only now the culprit is more invisible?

I think they’re trying to will this problem away.

[TigersEye]

Bacteria breaks the oil down. Plankton eat the bacteria. Fish eat the plankton. Oil is fish food.

What happens to all that natural oil seepage? What happens to all the "cars, boats and other sources" oil in the water? This well blowout doesn't change the ratios shown above.

[beaversmom]

If the oil is going to be taken care of naturally, why in the heck did they have to put all those disperants in the water? It sounds like nature knows how to take care of the oil. The chemicals? Who knows?

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yes, they are trying to will this away.

This story has just about disappeared from the MSM.

They don’t want to hurt Obama anymore with fallout from the oil spill.

So now they are saying the well is capped, and we’re not supposed to think about the environmental damage.

It may come back in the news after the elections, or at the time when court hearings and trials start.

The MSM doesn’t want to dwell on this in the less than three months until the mid-term elections.

Now, if an evil Republican were president, we would never hear the end of this.

But since a good Democrat is president, the power of the MSM will be used to ignore or spin the story to his advantage.

[justsaynomore]

My 8 year old told me God sucked the oil up

[The Looking Spoon]

I just don’t see how 5 million barrels pouring into the water doesn’t change the ratio.

I’m not trying to argue with you...but I just don’t see how it could be true.

[agere_contra]

A partial answer is that oil extraction suppresses natural seepage for miles around.

[screaminsunshine]

Dispersants are glorified dish soap. Ivory does the same thing. It helps break down the oil so it will be eaten by microbes in the sea. They have gone on a feeding frenzy and multiplied so now the process is faster. Never ever believe anything reported by the media.

[screaminsunshine]

5 mil. barrels is only 5 tankers of oil. Like a drop in a swimming pool.