I will add though that all is not lost. The 1979 IXTOX oil "spill" went on for a year, spilling 140 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. If you read the story below, you'll see that 170 miles of US coastline was coated with oil back in 79. The predictions were that the ecosystem...

Warning: Graphic, sickening images First the wildlife. The toll on the human residents yet to be understood. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/caught_in_the_oil.html I made a donation a couple of weeks ago. I think it's time I made another. Here's a list of organizations and agencies that ar...

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Awesome Jorge! Happy to see you back. Just a word of advice (and something I have learned here)...Keep your head firmly buried in the sand, don't go against the grain, and by all means do NOT, I mean DO NOT...mention the "O" word with negative connotation. Do those things, and all will be...

Awesome Jorge! Happy to see you back. Just a word of advice (and something I have learned here)...Keep your head firmly buried in the sand, don't go against the grain, and by all means do NOT, I mean DO NOT...mention the "O" word with negative connotation. Do those things, and all will be ...

Amy, I am so sorry to hear of your loss. I never met John in person, but it is clear he was a great man who made a positive impact on many people! Now I will tell a story, and hope I don't offend - it is meant in humor and love! John called me a d-bag here once, right after one of my political comme...

In related news, the New York Times has a story tonight saying that the "Top Kill" method has failed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/us/30spill.html?hp

And Obama is on his second family vacation since the oil spill happened.

I'm feelin' all hopey changey!

The people who lobby for less drilling are the same people who have made it near impossible to develop any new nuclear power plants in this country. Like somebody here said earlier (I think pip), France gets 75% of their power from nuke plants, and it remains the cleanest, safest energy source that ...

For those of you that want to use this as the latest excuse to point your fingers at the "other side", go ahead - but you can do so without my involvement. See, this just kills me, Augie. The "other side" spent 8 years killing our previous president for every little thing that w...

NOLA - I wasn't comparing this spill to others. The point I was making was in relation to the knee jerk reaction shown by a few here basically using this disaster/accident as a means by which to push an agenda (no drilling). My point was indeed meant to acknowledge the fact that this is the worst sp...

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I just want your cherry.

I love this thread! I may think the majority of you are loons, but damn, you are funny as hell!

Since the oil companies main concern is their profit, they don't really care where the oil comes from. Augie, is it then your assertion that these so called "green companies" who are being roadblocked from research by evil big oil, wouldn't have profit as their ultimate motive? You're kid...

This is interesting...With all of these spills throughout the world over the years of our oil addiction, it is a wonder that Mama Earth is still here. Oil Spills and Disasters The following list includes major oil spills since 1967. The circumstances surrounding the spill, amount of oil spilled, and...

Until we are willing to give up our addiction to oil and commit to the development of clean, renewable energy sources, this man-made disaster will occur again. Really? How long have we and the rest of the world been drilling in the Gulf (since the 1930's). And how many times has an oil rig been blo...

So can a wind farm, so can solar, etc, blah blah blah Because if I'm BP, I look at it this way "Sure, we'll try to be safe but we know the US Government will eventually fix it for us if we screw up. Because, in the end, they all need the oil more than we need to spend to contain a disaster.&qu...