re: #92 reine.de.tout

I put up a page yesterday morning about this, the story was in the local paper.

Much of the oil evaporated - up to 75% of this type of oil can evaporate in the sort of hot conditions we have here.

What was left was the gooey sticky tarballs that really don’t sink into anything; although they are ugly and messy, it’s what you want to have as it can be cleaned up.

I have a bit more optimism than you.

You should be optimistic… you have science on your side. Information about how the environment could mitigate a good percentage of this spill has been available from the start, but it has not received the same coverage in the media.

Instead we saw news report after news report, picture after picture, of massive fowling of the costs marshlands, wildlife, beaches, industry and tourism. Remember those videos of thousand of workers lining the beaches, dump trucks queued up, hauling sand off, pictures of rows of hotels and resorts with “for sale” signs and the day after day protests up and down the gulf coast by concerned environmental groups.

Oh… you didn’t that?