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| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
Don't know if anyone mentioned this point yet, but my main concern in all this, aside from the awful ecological damage that will take years to balance back out, is that the knee-jerk reaction of "Death to drilling!" is just going to make us more dependant on foreign sources.... and having more necessarily shipped in, which is how the Exxon Valdez situation happened- from a shipping mistake.
I don't think this will lead to more "urgency" for alternative energy in the public discource; we are saturated with this topic daily and have been increasingly so for years.
The truth is yes, energy prices are about to rise from this. Who will be hardest hit? The lower and middle class; adding say, 10% or 15% to the cost of food due to rising shipping costs will be horrible for them. And all of this could have been avoided!! Would we need super oil rigs reaching 5000 feet into the sea bed if barren wastelands ON DRY LAND like Anwar, Alaska could be accessed (with minimal environmental impact in comparison)? To me, this is more of a call for a reasonable, sane energy policy so we don't have to head 20 miles off shore and dig a mile deep. We always have to accept that there is risk and negatives involved if we want to see a lot of positive upside. This disaster is the consequence of a rediculously restrictive energy policy that limits the shit out of our own access to oil reserves on land. Now, unfortunately, photos of birds drenched in oil are about to further enslave us to energy dependence. |
Reading that other thread, you have proved to be beyond any reasonable discourse so all I'm going to say is that you are a huge imbecile. Analyze the bullshit you've been spewing and maybe you will realize how stupidly wrong you are.
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Rainbows and chocolate milk for everyone!
Taylor expects spill to break up naturally

GULFPORT — U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor on Saturday said people shouldn’t be so scared about the massive oil spill in the Gulf; he said after flying over it, “it’s not as bad as I thought.”
Taylor said the oil could break up before reaching Mississippi shores.
Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker said he is putting his focus on finding a way to contain the crude that continues to spill each day from the uncapped well in the Gulf.
Taylor flew over the site of the sunken Deepwater Horizon rig Saturday along with Department of Marine Resources Director Bill Walker and Rep. Jo Bonner of Alabama.
They viewed the spill from the extended ramp of a Coast Guard twin-engine plane 1,000 feet above the water.
“At the moment, it’s not as bad as I thought it would be,” he said, shortly after returning from the three-hour tour.
Taylor told a group of reporters waiting at Atlantic Aviation he was less concerned about the spill after witnessing its movement firsthand.
“This isn’t Katrina. It’s not Armageddon,” Taylor said. “A lot of people are scared and I don’t think they should be.”
He described the spill as a light, rainbow sheen with patches that look like chocolate milk.
He did not see any traces along the Louisiana shore, near the Chandeleur Islands in Louisiana or the barrier islands in Mississippi.
He said the closest he saw oil was 20 miles from the Louisiana marsh and that it was further than that away from the Chandeleur Islands and even further from the barrier islands.
“It’s breaking up naturally; that’s a good thing. The fact that it’s a long way from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, that’s a great thing, because it gives it time to break up naturally,” he said.
Walker said the sheen could collect on beaches and in estuaries, but it will evaporate within a week.
Walker’s plan is to let any sheen that makes its way into the marshes evaporate naturally.
“That’s what we will probably do, is leave it alone and let nature take its course,” he said.
Any residue on public beaches would be scraped away with a front-end loader, he said.
Wicker talked about the spill Saturday while attending the ribbon-cutting of the Fontainebleau Community Center/Emergency Shelter.
“I think initially our reaction is to try to stop the flow and get the oil cleanup done,” he said. “Questions will come also. But my top priority and the priority of the federal government is to stop the flow of oil and protect our wildlife.”
Wicker said he anticipated congressional hearings about the spill and wondered what the spill meant for the future of offshore drilling and energy use.
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