Posted on 08/05/2010 10:18:56 PM PDT by The Looking Spoon
If anything they’re hiding the fact that they missed the window to clean the vast majority of it with skimmers—and missing that window is entirely the fault of the Obama administration.
The effect of the spill is a crisis on hold for the time it is needed for a powerful political distraction. I’m sure several narratives have already been prepped for effectiveness.
Simple. the president wanted this to go away fast.....
The dispersants breakdown faster than the oil and speed the breakdown of the oil to months instead of years.
The dispersants are not new or unknown. We have been using the on oil spills for many years. The difference this time was the volume and applying directly at the spill source underwater allowing them to begin breaking down the oil sooner.
If not applied underwater, the oil would have spread even farther before reaching the surface nearly a mile up. This would have made it far more difficult to treat while so greatly spread out.
interesting...thanks for sharing this
Thanks for the info. I heard the dispersants were very toxic so it was a concern that they were putting so much into the water. It’s hard to know what to believe these days with so much propaganda and political agendas going on. I hope to goodness that nature is taking care of things like they are saying.
Plus it is light oil. It will take a while but it will be ok. I bet they end up tapping the well at the bottom and getting production out of it.
It doesn’t change the ratio because it is minute compared to the other sources of oil in the waterways. The Ixtoc 1 well blowout was included in the figures that went into that chart and it released far more oil than the Deepwater Horizon blowout.
That is exactly right. The one thing that could have been done was to put all efforts into protecting the shorelines and it needed to be done immediately not 50 days after the blowout began. 0bozo not only didn't do that he let the Coast Guard and other Fed agencies block state and private efforts to do that.
Thank you. Glad to do it.
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