Posted on 08/05/2010 1:52:22 PM PDT by thackney
Ahh oil true natural 100% biodegradable product
ping
Thank You Mother Nature.
Crude oil is 100% natural and biodegradable. That’s what I’ve always said.
An oil spill is not a good thing, especially a real gusher like Macondo. But neither is it end of the world stuff.
Oil leaks naturally into the Gulf of Mexico from the ocean floor at a fairly generous rate and has since time immemorial. It leaks naturally into the Pacific along the California coast too, and yet the world survives and everyone pays premiums to live along those very beaches.
It would also seem the wilder claims as to flow rate were wrong, too.
BUMP
All hail the all-powerful Obama!!!
Like that organic crap they label all the stuff at the grocery store?
Will these scientist say the same thing under a Republican majority house and administration?
Everything is alright, but ...
The oil has disappeared, but ...
There's not been one report since the cap that did not include, "but".
Bobby Jindral can figure in here if he has the honor to not take free money nor programs.
In fact the legacy oil fields in the Santa Barbara channel have significantly reduced the amount of oil seepage pollution on the beaches. Even so its been estimated that every four years the equivalent of an Exxon Valdez spill occurs on those beaches thru the seeps.
“Will these scientist say the same thing under a Republican majority house and administration?”
They’ll say that the processes involved will accelerate global warming/s;)
Do you think the dispersants helped? I'm no expert (and yet I never let that stop me from opining...) and I've wondered if the dispersants were making the situation worse, the dispersants were more toxic than the oil, the dispersants were making it harder for the ships to do their clean-up work... you know the drill. What is your opinion? Were the dispersants a net positive?
Indeed. I think when the scientific history of this spill is written, one of the major conclusions will be that the sub-sea addition of dispersants directly into the leak at the wellhead drastically reduced overall damage and time for recovery.
I believe the dispersants helped greatly and are less toxic than the oil they are breaking up.
The also breakdown themselves faster than the oil.
IIRC, the area of the spill is a deadzone created by fertilizer run-off from the Mississippi. (causing low O2 levels)
Wonder what effect that might haveon this whole process?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.