Posted on 06/16/2010 8:47:30 AM PDT by blam
Now Most Americans Think Gulf Wildlife And Beaches Will NEVER Recover
Gus Lubin
Jun. 16, 2010, 11:31 AM
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A new Gallup poll shows most people are very pessimistic about the oil spill.
59% of Americans say local wildlife will never cover. 49% say local beaches will never recover. Nearly everyone thinks wildlife and beaches will take more than ten years to recover.
Most people say the spill will hurt the economy (83%), push up gas prices (79%), and push up food prices (79%).
The polling numbers tell you everything you need to know about major publicity campaigns by BP, Barack Obama, and Florida.
(Read more: 18 Beaches That The Oil Spill May Ruin Forever)
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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Most Americans will believe whatever you tell them.
Oil is a natural substance. If they can get control of this leak, nature will rebound and in a few years there won’t be any sign that it happened.
This is the problem with not teaching history in public schools. Lots more oil spilled off the east coast during WWII. No big deal. Time heals all.
Nearly 85 percent of the 29 million gallons of petroleum that enter North American ocean waters each year as a result of human activities comes from land-based runoff, polluted rivers, airplanes, and small boats and jet skis, while less than 8 percent comes from tanker or pipeline spills.
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IXTOC 1. It was the biggest spill witha daily outflow of 30,000 barrels per day initially, dropping to 10,000 barrels per day. The flow was stopped after eight months and 3.5 million barrels were released into the Gulf of Mexico about 80 km offshore of Yucatan, Mexico in 1979.
We have seen it before. Revisionist history is used by those who seek to get man to accept CHANGE to socialist ends.
BS Alert...the Exxon Valdez spill was effectively gone in all ways in 8 years !
THe Missippi River pors all sorts of s**t everyday into the gulf including thick silt at a level that is off the charts. Billions of gallons a day.
The spill is not good but every picture of Florida beaches shows some person raking up seaweed. Seaweed is not oil.
Oil is a natural, though gooey and gross, substance. It is as natural as baby seals and hemp. It comes out of the ground occassionally. It makes a mess. Then it breaks down and fades away.
This mess will take a while, because it's a big mess.
“I wonder where the people in the picture are from”?
...various parents basements around the country.
Never? That can’t be. Dear leader said otherwise/s.
Its a mess but not the end of the world.
The Ixtoc well in Mexico put out a river of oil for almost a year. Made quite a mess along Texas beaches. Took a while to go away, but in time oil breaks down.
We have seen it before. Revisionist history is used by those who seek to get man to accept CHANGE to socialist ends.
This is what you don't see with natural seeps which are very low volume and highly diluted ...
With the government's figures of up to 60,000 barrels a day spewing into the Gulf of Mexico and then another person (who has been on the news before, saying that the spewing rate was a lot more than the 1,000 barrels a day that they started out saying in the beginning) -- he is saying that it's up to 120,000 barrels a day.
And then we have a "lake" where oil is actually burning out on top of the water, at a spot quite a distance from the drill site (many miles) and then the figure given out that there is a "lake of oil" in the Gulf of Mexico the size of about 40% of the entire Gulf, itself.
I'm sorry, but this is not "natural seepage" which is highly diluted by the time it impacts anything at all ...
If the oil reaches the inland areas that the migrating waterfowl use it will have lasting effects on their populations.
“Most Americans” were surprised by 9/11.
His post is Post #183 ...
The following information comes from recent measurements from the EPS and NOAA:
The Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deep well, meaning that the well itself drilled down to as far as 18, to 25,000 feet, nearly throw the Earths crust, we could every well have hit a strata of oil or a Bathetic of oil. Oil at those depths can reach levels of pressure of 70,000lbs psi. There is no technology known that can handle that pressure. Normal psi for a well is 1,500psi.
What this is doing is eroding the pipe and the surrounding area and digging a bigger fissure, much like if you stick a high-pressure hose in the ground, only in this case from the bottom up. This is causing other streams to open up, hence why we're seeing plumbs appearing miles away from the original rupture.
But that isn't the worst part. As bad as the oil is it is biodegradable. Along with the oil, deadly gases are escaping at the following unprecedented levels (from resent EPA measurements).
Hydrogen Sulfide - safe level = 5-10 parts per billion.
What's been measured: 1,200 parts per billion.Benzine - safe level = 0-4 parts per billion.
What's been measured: 3,000 parts per billion.Metholine Chloride - safe level = 61 parts per billion.
What's been measured: 3,400 parts per billion.
These gases can cause massive health effects ranging from shortness of breath to cancer to death. In fact, we've seen some surface workers hospitalized.
Insiders are now saying that there now may be only one way to stop this monster: Nuke it. However there is no guarantee that this wouldn't make matters even worse by opening up even a bigger rupture or creating multiple fissures in the sea floor.
If nothing at all is done, there is reason to believe this rupture will go on for years, possibly decades.
And if this isn't bad enough, Corexit 9500, the dispersant being used, is many times more damaging than the oil itself. Its highly toxic. At the temperatures in the Gulf waters this toxicity is magnified and turns into a gas that can be picked up by clouds and return to Earth as a toxic rain. This "death from above" precipitation may have the ability to destroy life from micro organisms up through the entire entire ecosystem. So the chemical "solution" to the hydrocarbon Extinction Level Event may turn out to be a localized environmental holocaust.
I really wish I had been wrong about this.
Formatted a slight bit differently than in the post, itself ...
They’re asking the wrong people. Why would the average person know whether something like this is fixable or not?
When the Hubble telescope was broken, I remember taking a tour of JPL and being told there that corrections were being made and what they were. I related this to a co-worker and she laughed in my face, called me naive and said “they’ll never fix it.” Well, the Hubble has been in use with amazing results for a few years now.
Opinions coming from ignorance and discouragement are not that reliable, I think.
Zero’s fault...
The first couple hurricanes might just clean up the whole mess, as Mother Nature often does...
We’d better check with the EPA on that: EPA classifies milk as oil, forcing costly rules on farmers
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