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Termyn8or -> RE: Gulf Oil Spill-Gutsy Solution Restores Environment in Just Six Weeks (6/7/2010 6:09:20 PM)
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Well, I don't have much background in chemistry so you'll have to forgive my simplistic stance here. So what is said that there are lumps that sink, and aromatic components that simply evaporate ? I can accept that. If you can smell crude, obviously something is outgassing, and I would bet that in time it lessens the grade of the crude.
As to the components which will fall to the ocean floor, which is more important to address ? Shrimp are bottom feeders. But they do need oxygen right ?
Maybe I am half crocked, but maybe we should try some big nets just to get the aquatic life out of there to the open sea ? Not easy, but the whole problem doesn't seem to be easy anyway. But would they go and be happy or just migrate back ? They were there for a reason in the first place.
In other words, what is the most effective solution. Even with the "fences" or whatever they call them that, in sufficient size and quantity could move most of the spill out to sea for eventual burning off or whatever, all that is doing is to move the problem. And these bacteria, just how safe are they, and/or their waste components. Do we want oil fed shrimp ?
None of this would be a problem if money wasn't the driving factor, pun intended.
And, I have been informed as of today that one relatively small business which happens to use alot of fuel is now boycotting BP. Previously they had almost exclusively used BP gas and deisel. I wonder how many other companies will do that in light of their PR dept. This guy did it for his own reasons, and can afford to do whatever he damn well pleases. What happens when big compamies might decide to drop BP as a suppiler for PR reasons ?
If BP doesn't handle this right they could become like a pariah in the market. But money will be made because this is not that much different than the Union Carbide episode decades ago in India. This is just a bit closer to home. It is not closer to home for the whole world, and the brokers will again make money now, just as they did then.
See how quickly money came back into the equation ?
Now there are reports of "shortcuts being taken". For the love of your own fucking earlobe, when you are standing to make millions of dollars, why do some have the need to save ten or twenty bucks here and there ? That, to me is more proof that greed is actually an addiction to money, and a form of addiction that is never addressed.
And with few consequences, it is not likely to change. I don't see anyone going to jail. Why don't y'all go start a forest fire and see what happens. You go to PRISON, even if it was a total accident. So money has bought a double standard as far as I can see.
Sometimes you just throw up your hands and say "So what ? " . Nothing you can do. The effects might already be here. I have liked the local Chinese joint's triple crown for some time. I'd estimate it had over ten shrimp in it. Last week I could find only three.
The tourist traps in the Gulf region are probably going to go bankrupt sooner or later. And whatever components of that crude that do float on water are going to spread. I heard it's already affected Texas. Wait until Mexico starts bitching. And they have every right. All they really had was alot of coastline other than good drugs and some old US built cars. Now who wants to go, unless to the west coast ?
Really, argue all you want, but I think someone belongs in jail over this shit.
T
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