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To: ahhaha who wrote (17236)6/25/2010 3:13:35 PM
From: sixty2ndsRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 24758
 
Areas where the oil comes ashore will be a mess for
awhile. Lives will be disrupted. But there is simply too
much water, not enough oil.



To: ahhaha who wrote (17236)6/26/2010 11:36:20 AM
From: TrumptownRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 24758
 
we're making things MUCH worse by dumping millions of gallons of toxic dispersant on it...

examiner.com



To: ahhaha who wrote (17236)6/26/2010 3:48:22 PM
From: frankw1900Respond to of 24758
 
It's happened before in the Gulf

newsobserver.com

After big 1979 spill, a stunning recovery

[snip]

MALAQUITE BEACH, Texas -- The oil was everywhere, long black sheets of it, 15 inches thick in some places. Even if you stepped in what looked like a clean patch of sand, it quickly and gooily puddled around your feet. And Wes Tunnell, as he surveyed the mess, had only one bleak thought: "Oh, my God, this is horrible! It's all gonna die!"

But it didn't. Thirty-one years since the worst oil spill in North American history blanketed 150 miles of Texas beach, tourists noisily splash in the surf and turtles drag themselves into the dunes to lay eggs.

"You look around, and it's like the spill never happened," shrugs Tunnell, a marine biologist. "There's a lot of perplexity in it for many of us."

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