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What was that place up in Alaska where the guy was drunk, ran a boat aground? Prince William Sound. They were wiping off the rocks with Dawn dishwater detergent and paper towels and so forth. The place is pristine now.
The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and was left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is.
http://www.cccarto.com/platforms/platforms1.pdf
This site shows the locations of offshore oil rigs in the gulf, the particular link page shows rigs off shore of the New Orleans area ,yes the green dots represent oil rigs ,Perusing the site shows all other areas where oil rigs are located, there are thousands of these rigs scattered throughout the gulf..
http://www.cccarto.com/platforms/platforms1.pdf
This site shows the locations of offshore oil rigs in the gulf, the particular link page shows rigs off shore of the New Orleans area ,yes the green dots represent oil rigs ,Perusing the site shows all other areas where oil rigs are located, there are thousands of these rigs scattered throughout the gulf..
Much of the oil is sold to other countries too. So, we're allowing big oil to literally kill the Gulf just to fulfill their disgusting greed..
What was that place up in Alaska where the guy was drunk, ran a boat aground? Prince William Sound. They were wiping off the rocks with Dawn dishwater detergent and paper towels and so forth. The place is pristine now.
The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and was left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is.
The Exxon Valdez oil spill was 11 million gallons, a finite amount of oil. The current oil spill in the gulf has probably already exceeded that number, and is still gushing.
There are over 3,800 oil rigs out in the Gulf of Mexico today. What if more of them start exploding and leaking? This could happen again. And there's no reason to think that the oil companies will be any more prepared next time than they were this time.
I don't really think that people are going to be able to get out into the tidal creeks and wetlands of the gulf and wipe up the oil like they did in Alaska. The terrain is too wet and muddy and filled with marsh grasses. Is someone going to go out and wipe oil off of each clump of cordgrass? It would be a lot easier to clean oil off of a rocky coastline than the type of coastline that exists in the Gulf of Mexico.
This is just a horrible, heartbreaking tragedy. I'd like to think the Gulf, and wherever else this disaster spreads to, will be pristine again in 20 years, but we don't really know.
One hurricane will clean the whole mess up. Where is the evil Bush and that dreaded hurricane machine? They must still be working on it in the bowels of Halliburton.
All I can say is we now have the tec to use way less oil at lower cost than what we are doing now.
There are cars out there that are much more fuel efficient than most of the ones we are being offered,there are a lot of alternatives to plastic usage. i'm sure we can make a substantial impact on the amount of petroleum usage but getting people and companies to get motivated to change is a tougher nut to crack.
Greed and stupidity have done us in. The planet wil be better off without humans and maybe wildlife will prevail again at some point. Man is not worthy of nature and its beauty.
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