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Gulf turning
‘unbelievably bad'
And the Dems are too timid to use it against the GOP
Excerpt:
With a quick solution ominously uncertain, the
oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is on track to become an
unprecedented economic and environmental disaster
with millions of gallons of oil destroying an ecosystem as well as a way
of life.
BP America said Monday that it would take another 75 days to finish one of two relief wells it’s drilling to shut down the flow.
By then, if the spill doesn’t worsen and the relief
well stops the leak, some 20 million gallons of oil will be swirling in
the Gulf,
nearly double the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989.
Unlike the Alaska spill, which coated a rock-strewn
bay, BP’s oil will cling to a spongelike coast, entering the pores
of mangrove forests and sea-grass beds and the
breeding grounds for crabs, shrimp and oysters.
Already some of the richest fishing grounds of the Gulf are off-limits, idling thousands of commercial fishermen.
Some restaurants in New Orleans and elsewhere are either out of homegrown oysters or are down to less than a week’s supply.
In Mississippi, charter boats and hotels are reporting declines in business.
“It’s going to be unbelievably bad,” said Jeremy
Jackson, a professor of oceanography at the Scripps Institution
of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. “This is
a problem that won’t go away for a decade.”
THIS is what happens when Democrats let the greedy
oil companies run wild.
THIS is what happens when government "gets out
of the way."
Here is their plan - another 4,000 oil platforms to kill the Gulf of Mexico for centuries.
I wish I wasn't stuck in a party of sacless cowards
who are too scared to speak up.
I wish my president wasn't bending over backwards
to please BIG oil and the GOP bastards.
I miss the nineties, when Monica and how-to-spend-the-surplus
were America's biggest problems.
But half the Democrats and the whore media and all the Republicans HATED the nineties.
Half the Democrats said, "What
could be worse than another Clinton in the White House?"
How could I be so wrong?
I
can answer that, Bart!