“Yea, that didn’t happen.”
Depends on who you talk to. A lot more has happened in the gulf than we know, Thanks to government influence on the media. And only God knows what people have been ingesting.
Yes, there’s more to the situation than we’re being commonly told.
But the hysteria on ZH as to what they thought would happen was absurd. Utterly absurd.
As with the nuke disaster in Japan, when I said we’ve had nuke disasters before, we’ve had oil wells blow out before. There was a huge blowout near Bakersfield, CA in 1910, the Lakeview blowout. This blowout dwarfs the Deepwater Horizon blowout by a fair bit. There was literally a lake of crude oil on top of the ground. Today, you can find a bit of asphalt on top of the sand if you know what you’re looking for/at. Weeds and plant life grow quite in the area, when there is enough precip to foster plant growth.
http://www.sjvgeology.org/history/lakeview.html
There was another huge oil well blow-out in Spindletop, TX in 1901. Here’s what a nine-day gusher site looks like today:
http://www.geoexpro.com/sfiles/33/34/1/file/historyofoil.pdf
Crude oil isn’t the huge catastrophe that some people think it is. Sure, it makes a mess for awhile. But crude oil has been washing up on shorelines for eons before we got here, and will be doing so after we’re gone. Oil is came out of the earth, and there are plenty of microbes in nature that eat it. To some people, crude oil is thought of as some alien other-worldly substance that the earth cannot deal with, and the release of same will just cause death and destruction everywhere it goes.
Again, this is just hysterical nonsense. Messy, yes. Expensive to clean up, yes. The end of the world? Hardly.