The BP Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will upset the ecosystem and touch our lives immensely. I heard on the TV a couple of days ago that the Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million gallons in 1989. The BP spill is pumping 5,000 barrels of oil a day.
On January 23rd there was an oil spill in Port Author, Texas. This spill was 450,000 gallons in the port, which flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
Fishermen are out of work, fish are dying, wetlands are destroyed and folks still want to gas up the SUV. In the meantime BP, Halliburton and Transocean point the finger at each other. Oddly enough, I don’t here Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, or any other “Drill Baby Drill” person saying anything.
I read an article that said the sample that EPA took on May 4, did not indicate an “increased risk to aquatic life”. Really!!??
Like Marvin Gaye sang in 1971, in Mercy Mercy Me; “Oil wasted on the oceans and upon our seas fish full of mercury, mercy mercy me, things ain’t what they used to be”.
Peace & Love
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