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comrad
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WoodsRuner wrote:Rush happens to be correct. I will point out the millions of barrels of crude oil, gas, diesel, aviation fuel, ect were spilled into both the Atlantic and the Pacific during WW2, with not one bit of an effort to clean it up, and the oceans suffered short term damage, but a long term proliferation of life. Look at Pearl Harbor. Enough oil products were spilled there on Dec. 7, 1941 to choke the place dead, but it is beautiful today. The amount of crude spilled into the western Pacific in the last two years of the war dwarfs the Gulf spill.
In the long term, Rush is exactly correct. However, we humans in our current stage of development and mind set do not see the long term, and want only instant gratifications. We see oil drowned birds and want them cleaned, we see oil stained white sand beaches and want those who caused it punished, as well an an immediate clean-up. In the short term this spill is going to be a mess, but in the long term the Gulf will flourish.
Of course it will recover in the long run. Earth has taken much more abuse than this. But to argue the fact that this oil leak is "natural" is complete bull****. The oil is "naturally" a mile under the ground, not in the ocean. Sure, there has been worse things we have done to the Earth but this is the biggest spill in US history. The impact it will have on the gulf will dwarf that of the Exxon Valdez spill.
It is easy for you to say "fuc|< those birds" but in reality the birds aren't the only issue here. The tourism industry, the fishermen in that area, property values, the gulf economy in general, they have all been hit very hard, and the longer it takes the ocean and wildlife to recover from this spill, the longer it will take the economy to recover.
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I think they meant that the oil its self is natural....i could be wrong. (Not arguing, or being sarcastic...just my honest opinion)
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i read some where that now they are worried about the oil forming deposits that sink. if they sink they could potentail ruin many ecosystms. the bottom feeders would be eating oil then fish the eat those and so on. so this could impact us hugely to in this way
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WoodsRuner
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Oil has been seeping into the oceans naturally for millions of years. The biological means are there to handle it. Trillions of oil-eating bacterias will
develop in the Gulf and consume most of it, but it will take time. The pitiful attempts to clean it up will do nothing in comparison to nature's cleaning methods.
I will point out that we did not invent crude oil, we only found uses for it.
It has been here long before we were. To suggest that this leak is a natural occurrence is asinine. To think that anyone here thinks so is just plain ignorant. But nature has ways of dealing with it better than we can.
Who do I blame for this disaster?
1.BP of course. Their safety record is appalling. And remember, BP is British Petroleum, it is NOT an American company. Regret the day BP bought Standard Oil.
2.The current Administration just as much. There were means at hand to contain it, and Obama's team denied the use of EVERY SINGLE one of them. Not to mention that this very platform was inspected 10 days before the explosion by Obama's Dept. of Interior and given a clean bill of health.
3.The Tree Huggers, for fighting close-to-shore shallow water drilling tooth and nail. Had this catastrophe occurred in 200 feet of water, the well would have been capped within 48-72 hours.
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comrad wrote:Rush Limbaugh says "The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there,” Limbaugh said. “It’s natural. It’s as natural as the ocean water is."
Oh yeah, that's very natural. 
Sad part,Rush is right! Nature always cleans itself up...Bikini Atoll,Truk Lagoon! Mt St. Helens! Gulf of Mexico during WW2!
http://trueslant.com/justingardner/2010/05/02/rush-limbaugh-oil-spill-is-natural/
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