Dump an oil tanker of dawn in the gulf

mysticcat: I'm still waiting on the environmental holocaust in the Gulf

Like the on-going red tide bloom and resulting fish kill?

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Well, I cook all of my own meals and buy local vegtables only and raise my own meats. I also don't have any mortage payments and the poop in my family has not had a smell in several generations. But when I do drink beer I drink_______. (alot)

Still waiting for the 600 feet deep wall of oil to hit the shore ....

TravisBickle62: Still waiting for the 600 feet deep wall of oil to hit the shore ....

They are using it to keep the president black.

FAIL tag last spotted at Disneyworld, apparently.

various mitigating steps should have been immediately implemented following the spill; instead there was a political game with the money and manpower which delayed the execution of clean-up efforts, leaving scientists with their thumbs up their asses regarding exactly how to deal with this problem and just what impact this will have for the region in the coming years. I can only hope that environmental regulations are wiped off the books so a disaster of this magnitude will never happen again.

_{/first part's true; second is Republican truth}

When every single thing in the oceans is dead, we'll all be like, "How did this happen?!?"

Still happy that people seem to have no idea how big the Gulf of Mexico is, or how dynamic the system is, much less the ocean as a whole

/in b4 floating garbage islands

pudding7: Just remember, RON PAUL thinks the free market will prevent and inevitably deal with this kind of disaster and resulting pollution. No government intervention would be necessary in a case like this in the fantasy world where RON PAUL lives.

That's right. Private owners are always better stewards of land and resources than government.

Government owned land....


Private owned land...

And, you wonder why the OWS protesters are so angry.

So are we just throwing the Florida tag on whatever the hell we want these days?

Knara: Still unhappy that people seem to have no idea how big the Gulf of Mexico is, much crap we dump into the Gulf of Mexico, or how dynamic the system is many things we've fished to the point to the point of no return in the Gulf, much less the ocean as a whole

/just as valid

toraque: I think we'll be okay, at least until it hits the anus.

If Florida is the wang, and Pensacola->New Orleans area is the taint, where is the anus? Brownsville?

InmanRoshi: pudding7: Just remember, RON PAUL thinks the free market will prevent and inevitably deal with this kind of disaster and resulting pollution. No government intervention would be necessary in a case like this in the fantasy world where RON PAUL lives.

That's right. Private owners are always better stewards of land and resources than government.

Government owned land....
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Private owned land...
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Government owned land...





Private owned land...

I just checked and it's the same blue on my globe that it's always been.

InmanRoshi: Government owned land....

Or this government owned land:

cryinoutloud: Knara: Still unhappy that people seem to have no idea how much crap we dump into the Gulf of Mexico compared to the total volume of circulated water there so that except for some near-shore areas (and keep in mind that "near shore" is a few hundred miles) it doesn't really matter, or how many things we've fished to the point of no return not being profitable in the Gulf, much less the ocean as a whole

FTFY

When I was but a lad, the teacher in my class told us we could draw, so I drew a boat. The water on which I drew it was brown, because I had only ever seen the sea at Galveston. I didn't know water was supposed to be blue.

Maud Dib: mysticcat: I'm still waiting on the environmental holocaust in the Gulf

Like the on-going red tide bloom and resulting fish kill?

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Did the government conspire to remove your link?

By all means, continue buying from BP

moothemagiccow: By all means, continue buying from BP

It was funny how quickly every ARCO, Amoco and BP station closed in Oklahoma during the spill. People knew where that oily feeling that stuck to you and everything else was coming from once the south winds started sending the smoke inland.

It's rare that I get to chime in on a Fark board on something I actually know something about (rather than something that while drunk I speculate on or make a fart joke about) but this is one of them.
I work for the NPS, and when the spill happened all of the gulf interfacing parks, (Everglades, De Soto, Gulf Islands, Dry Tortugas, Padre), along with the other DOI managed lands, like Ten Thousand Islands NWR, flipped their wig and jumped into action. No one knew where the oil was going to end up (loop current) so even some parks on the atlantic, like Biscayne, were concerned. I'm in Cultural Resources, and we were tasked immediately with going out before oil washed up to establish a baseline on our water interfacing sites, presumably so that if inundated with oil, we could eventually send BP a bill for repair. Oil never ended up hitting my park, but it did at Gulf Islands National Seashore. I don't know how it worked on lands under other management, but on NPS lands, BP started the clean up before a judge told them to, I guess since they figured if their stock wasn't bad off enough already, it would be if they didn't at least try to make an effort. The clean up crews at Gulf Islands were treated as any other contractor in a national park would be, and required a "resource advisor" (read) for each group of clean-up personal. Gulf Islands is a smallish park and didn't have the 100's of reads needed for clean up work, so this call went out across the NPS for people to come and detail. I went last year to Mississippi to serve as a read. The island I was on had a good amount of oil on it. Some was in the form of mats, and some was broken up tar balls. The clean up crews (locals from MS) would be shipped from the mainland to the island, land a big barge set, load into cattle cars pulled by tractors, followed by a trailer with portapotties on in pulled by another tractor, followed by supervisors on UTV's. They would go to whatever section of beach had been selected by the Joint Incident Command to clean that day, unload, and proceed to clean the beach with deep fryer strainers duct taped to a broom stick. The Reads would wander around, trying our best to minimize impact by the crews on the already impacted resource. The oil was pretty much confined to the beach, not up in the sand dunes.
I went back to the same island this year to serve as a read again. It had far less oil on it, and core samples indicated it wasn't just buried. So, as far as the few miles of a few different islands I observed from last year to this, it's cleaner. Is it rolling around on the bottom of the gulf? Probably. Will BP get away with saying they tried and drag it out in court for years to come, never really having to dip into their massive profits? Most certainly yes.
As a side, there is an interesting group of NPS employees who can always remember their time on the beaches of gulf islands, wandering for hours in the dunes, collecting massive amounts of overtime and per diem, all out of an account number billed directly to BP. Black gold, the fleecing of BP, etc... This same group of park rangers, from yellowstone, fort vancouver, Acadia, ect, also share the experience of spending 15 hours a day on a beach looking after a lot of people from Mississippi. Front tooth grills, black and milds, cell phones that play rap, etc.

Business as usual, then. I didn't feel like driving around for an hour and a half trying to gt a parking space at Siesta Beach anyway.

Mirrorz : I think BP invested their "cleaning up the gulf fund" on making TV spots saying that the water is safe again. Thanks, assholes.

They poured it into the local governments all up and down the coast. BP set up a political and legal team for every single county all along the Gulf Coast, and poured a lot of money into the area. They paid off each local government, one after one, with obscene amounts of money that most of them squandered on BS. (Our local beach spent their 3/4 of their 1.2 million dollars paying for headliner acts for a country music festival that flopped badly). Not only did they provide jobs with wages way above the local pay scale for the clean up, they paid out money for people who were (supposedly) affected by the spill. I say supposedly because this money was like a magnet for every sleazy lawyer and scam artist up and down the Gulf Coast. Freaking churches were even getting money because their collections were down. It was ridiculous. But since the lawyers run most of the local governments nowadays, and they had a gravy train to ride, all the long term environmental considerations were never even considered.

And like someone said up above, overbuilding on the coast has ruined the ecology there more than ten of these oil spills could ever could. When the builders come in, they rip out the sea grass that supports the all important bottom of the food chain, then put in grass and poison and over fertilize it, insuring that the bottom of the food chain is destroyed. It's illegal, but if you have money that goes out the window every time. If it wasn't for the Big Bend area and the national parks, they would have cemented over the entire coastline from Texas to the Keys by now.

Mugato: Well Mexicans do swim in it...


Maud Dib: mysticcat: I'm still waiting on the environmental holocaust in the Gulf

Like the on-going red tide bloom and resulting fish kill?


...And they apparently left a ring


/sorry

Knara: Still happy that people seem to have no idea how big the Gulf of Mexico is, or how dynamic the system is, much less the ocean as a whole

/in b4 floating garbage islands

how's that cognitive dissonance working out for you? enjoy your denial, future generations will thank us all.

dollar votes: not spending money at BP will make a difference.

KrispyKritter: Knara: Still happy that people seem to have no idea how big the Gulf of Mexico is, or how dynamic the system is, much less the ocean as a whole

/in b4 floating garbage islands

how's that cognitive dissonance working out for you? enjoy your denial, future generations will thank us all.

dollar votes: not spending money at BP will make a difference.

Fark the "future generations". What have they ever done for me ?

Readysteadystop: When I was but a lad, the teacher in my class told us we could draw, so I drew a boat. The water on which I drew it was brown, because I had only ever seen the sea at Galveston. I didn't know water was supposed to be blue.

You do realize that that section of the Texas coast is subject to heavy longshore currents and as a result transports a huge amount of sediment up the coast towards the Houston ship channel?

You think they built the jetties on the beach just so tourists could run up and down em (they're technically groins, not jetties, but people look at you funny when you call them that)? The water ain't brown from trash there bud.