Posted on 08/04/2010 10:45:57 AM PDT by blam
One Chart That Proves The Oil Spill Really Was Overblown
Gus Lubin
Aug. 4, 2010, 1:32 PM
As promised, the government has released a report saying the oil spill is a relatively minor event.
Of 4.9 billion barrels discharged, 17% was captured straight from the wellhead. Five percent was burned, 3% was skimmed, and 8% was dispersed with non-toxic chemicals. Another 16% dispersed naturally and 25% evaporated or dissolved. This portion isn't vitamin C, but it is certifiably harmless.
Only 26% of the oil remains in the water. This portion exists as light sheen, tar balls, or buried mud: forms that are unlikely to suffocate a whale or plaster a sea gull.
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Well, I guess that’s a good thing as I have it on good authority that Obama did, in fact, rest.
That's well worth the cost of having them at the ready in the gulf at all times.
The oil spill is like Porklulus money. I know there’s tons of it out there, but I don’t know where it went.
I’m reserving judgment on whether or not it was overblown. IMO it’s too early to know the real effects of this spill.
I’d like to see the final report squelch all the doom and gloom hysteria that is being infiltrated into our lives.
While I don’t know much, something tells me to wait and see.
“I have it on good authority that Obama did, in fact, rest.”
Did he rest on the 7th day? Or on Saturday perhaps?
When do Muslims rest?
Excellent.
By the first day Obama had finished avoiding his responsibilities; so on the first day he rested from all his sloth. And Obama blessed the first day and made it a golf outing, because on it he had rested from all the cowering he had done. (Genesis 2:2-3)
I want to thank them all and the media hype too for eviscerating the local economy where I live in FL. The tourism that is the life blood of the area is decimated. We have crystal clear water and perfectly clean beaches with almost no one here enjoying them.
I seem to remember politicians saying they were praying. But I don’t hear any thanking God that it was stopped.
Same thing here in Texas. Except the water isn’t quite as clear. But it’s like that all the time.
I did my part to help the Florida economy this summer.
Pensacola Beach, Panama City Beach, Cocoa Beach.
The only beach I saw closed from Navarre to P’cola was the stretch right behind the bandstand at P’cola Beach and that was for the news crews to record vagabonds in tyvex wandering the beach in respirators pickin up “tarballs”.
Every other beach was open, in use, and looking good.
What a hoax.
I think I’d put the media hype at the top of the list. Fortunately, in at least one case, Atlanta’s close, so you don’t have to lug the pitchfork too far.
Not overblown. Too little information to make any judgement at this time.
There will be a portion that is heavy enough to settle on the floor of the gulf, where it will remain like blacktop.
For spills closer to shore it is not uncommon to have to send a diver down with what amounts to an undersea vacuum to pull the pools of oil that settle to the bottom.
As for what’s been dispersed and is ‘naturally breaking down’, matter is neither created or destroyed, just transformed. Since we don’t know the chemistry behind the Corexit formulas that were used, we can’t make any judgement at all as to whether the resultant chemicals are inert to the environment.
As an engineer, I’m as indignant of crap like this as I was of the apocalyptic claims being made on the left as to whether BP ‘killed the Gulf of Mexico’.
I’d say there was less environmental damage done than your average volcano, and more than if they’d have allowed the rig captain to make the call and shut down the drilling when the pressure readings were burying the needle.
“An enormous amount of the oil is now buried and we know from previous spills that this buried material can persist for decades,” MacDonald said. “And that oil does have an effect on the behavior and health of the animals.”
That’s what I figured, from the very beginning, but the Obama Administration wasn’t about to ‘waste the crisis’, and immediately started their denial of drilling attempts, which is what they’ve been chomping at the bit to do, from the start.
The Gulf of Mexico holds 643 quadrillion gallons of water. Approximately 5 million gallons of oil was spilled. Thus, the oil comprised 8.02e9 percent of the total water volume of the gulf. If using a standard bathtub as a comparison (~40 gallons), this equates to slightly more than 1000th of a milliliter of oil per tub of water. Virtually nonexistent.
Yeah - but you don't want to be the statistician who drowned trying to wade a river with an average depth of 3 feet . . .
Perhaps this will help. BP's response to EPA's dispersant directive
Sure we do. The information has been available on the NALCO website for over a month. The contents of both Corexits are widely used chemicals that are in many consumer products, some of them even as food additives. If you bother to chase the information down, the fates of all of them are known. The big thing is that both forms of Corexit are relatively unstable once in aqueous solution, and naturally react away with a half-life of between 10 and 20 days (the variation is because the different molecular species decay at different rates). And bacteria "eat" them actually in preference to oil.
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