Most BP Oil Still Pollutes the Gulf, Scientists Conclude

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How? Has the U.S. government slammed BP?
Explained how BP ignored warnings given by experts?
Explained how the U.S. gov't relied on BP for estimates of the leak for so long - BP being the culprits!!!!
And just in case you haven't noticed. The Federal Reserve and Government are still feeding the banks, Fannie & Freddie, horse-loads of capital. Much of that capital is speculating on oil and other commodities.
AND - if you think I am full of @#$%&^$, then explain why there are hundreds of oil tankers floating in the world's oceans, full of oil, with nowhere to off load. Despite this surplus, the price of oil has gone up into the $80s per barrel. Gee ya think Obama doesn't know this too?
Please pray for the U.S. taxpayer - the sucker of last resort. May they wake up and kick the bloodsuckers out of office.
I am not an American, but I respect those Americans who remember the rewards of honest work and deplore the excesses that are ruining their once proud country.
GBA
God Bless America

John 3:21AM November 18, 2010

i cannot believe my ears, this is crazy, i thought that obama stopped this mess!
You gotta be joking. You say to just let it alone, the bacteria will eat it or it will just stay deep. man, are you a sociopath?
bacteria can not eat that much oil, nor do they do it quickly. Plus, when it does, it also kills all life around it because it consumes too much oxygen. Furthermore, there are fish who swim these waters, some even migrate here from around the world. You are one cold hearted man to say the things you did. To talk about something so serious and know nothing of what you are saying. It is people like you who caused this mess, and we invite you to the coast so we can teach you a lesson on manners in a civil society, especially when your comments only prevent accountability.
They spotted a 22 mile long plume, and this is just one of them. The thing leaked around 100,000 barrels a day for three months and it is still not done leaking oil. Then add a few million gallons or more of Corexit. You do know Corexit is a nerve agent, right. It also dries and blows in the wind. We want your phone number so we can call you up in a few years and tell you really what is on our minds.

andrew milbag of AZ 10:54AM August 27, 2010

.....to begin with. Now? Now it's a oil-soaked and Corexit Dispersant-soaked body of water that will NEVER be the same.
I feel so sorry for the people down there who made their living with anything to do with the Gulf of Mexico.

Skip Mize of MI 7:27PM August 25, 2010

You gotta be joking. You say to just let it alone, the bacteria will eat it or it will just stay deep. man, are you a sociopath?
bacteria can not eat that much oil, nor do they do it quickly. Plus, when it does, it also kills all life around it because it consumes too much oxygen. Furthermore, there are fish who swim these waters, some even migrate here from around the world. You are one cold hearted man to say the things you did. To talk about something so serious and know nothing of what you are saying. It is people like you who caused this mess, and we invite you to the coast so we can teach you a lesson on manners in a civil society, especially when your comments only prevent accountability.
They spotted a 22 mile long plume, and this is just one of them. The thing leaked around 100,000 barrels a day for three months and it is still not done leaking oil. Then add a few million gallons or more of Corexit. You do know Corexit is a nerve agent, right. It also dries and blows in the wind. We want your phone number so we can call you up in a few years and tell you really what is on our minds.

tony of LA 4:09PM August 25, 2010

The bacteria in the warm Gulf will make short work out the oil that doesn't seep too deep back into the sea floor. And that stuff that settles in deeply? Foegetabouit.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 3:56PM August 25, 2010

It is amazing to see so many people apologize, make up excuses for what the oil industry did, and how regular people allowed this to happen. With regulation so slight it is almost funny. the whole time, we regular people took the pay check and turned our heads. So here we are, in denial, and playing this down or just blaming others when we should all be looking in the mirror. But hey, we can each pick a news channel that suits our beliefs, to avoid our truths. Until your big neighbor comes over and shows you how to behave because your rhetoric causes further damage and prevents accountability. And when our brothers, pastors, and neighbors hold those accountable around him, nothing will change. It is easy to figure what me and you will compromise to make a paycheck, but what you did not think about was what the other guy would do to make his dollar. So our collective turning our heads to put food on the table leaves us in a funny spot, we no longer have food from the sea to put on the table. What is happening to us now, this is a distaster that holds the symbolism for us to change our ways. To get a spine, be less selfish; to learn what community is.
The oil is everywhere, it is all over your body and do not want to see it. If you were not to cherry pick your news, you would know that oil spills in deep water only about 2 percent make it to the surface (now add Corexit to sink the rest). And only about 1 percent of dead fish float to the surface and make it to shore. And we all know what BP did in the clean up efforts in the Valdez disaster. We know that we have oil men parading around as public servants who did little to think about the fish, or the people. And now we have a man who promises big change as he bans reporters from our Gulf of Mexico, and the advertisers pled on television that the beaches welcome you for fun times. I still got oil between my toes from childhood trips with my family to the beach. Always being told by my mother to be sure to get all the tar off before I get into the car. If I had known then what I know now. But now I know, and now I will not let others play this disater down. I will no longer make friends with those who profit from this industry. Nor will I let my family and friends vote for such public servants who only service industry. I want someone to finally represent me. It is time we but the brakes on this kind of business mentality, and the people who push these ideas.
The Gulf is gone, dead. Does anyone have a voice against this crime of ours? All I see is a man who sees a bird covered in oil and just walks by, where are the people who are outraged?

tony of LA 1:56PM August 25, 2010

Agree with Conrad

Joe of TX 9:21PM August 20, 2010

To understand the government deception and the similarity to September 11, follow the money....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6P3w1qJRiM

Robert of AL 3:15PM August 20, 2010

Jesse, I'm sure US News & World Report covered the deaths of the rig workers, and probably their funerals and memorial services as well. That was several months ago. The paper this story is based on came out yesterday. That is news.
Do you think scientists from NOAA, Woods Hole, Princeton, U of GA, etc. should not study what is going on in the gulf? Why not? To whose benefit would it be if they didn't? We wouldn't know that most of the oil was still in the water. We would still think that only 26% was left, as Adm. Thad Allen reported a few weeks ago. It seems to me that your outrage that the oil spill is being reported on is misplaced.

David Conrad of MI 11:57AM August 20, 2010

Much is made of the "plume" without really defining it. The article in Science clearly states it is not a river of oil.
{quote}Although plenty of oil was flowing from the ruptured well, it didn't look much like an underwater oil slick. The team's camera picked up a yellowish fog half a kilometer from the well (see figure), and water samples farther from the well did not look or smell like oil. “The plume was not a river of Hershey’s syrup,” says marine geochemist Christopher Reddy of the WHOI group.
The plume did, however, contain more than 50 micrograms per liter (about 0.05 parts per million) of a group of particularly toxic petroleum compounds that includes benzene, the team reports online today in Science. That amount of benzene-related petroleum compounds is roughly consistent with the 1 to 2 parts per million of total oil reported in plumes by some other researchers. {end quote}
So you are talking about an underwater river with a few parts per million oil, finely dispersed. Yes, you would not want to drink it, but it not an oily slimy muck that most people would conger up. And it is kind of trapped there , not dispersing too well yet, due to currents and density gradients and buoyancy.
IT is important to note that the Oil "spill" was large but in reality a large amount of oil is naturally discharged into the gulf sea floor every year--the "spill" was about the equivalent of 10 years of natural seepage. (recall--oil was discovered in PA 100 years ago just seeing out of the ground...same thing happens under the sea). So, the environment can deal with oil, eventually. And compared to the natural seepage in the entire atlantic basin, the "spill" is not a catastropic amount. The issue is getting it totally and uniformly dispersed.
I guess the main point is that hundreds of millions of gallons of oil seems like a lot when you write it that way, but compared to the volume of the Gulf, the Carribean, and the atlantic ocean it is not that much.
Now, it is a matter of definition whether you want to call that dispersed or gone or dissipated.

lcr of NY 11:47AM August 20, 2010