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Apocalypse Wha???
Remember that horrific spill in the Gulf? You know, the one that lay at the root of the biggest disaster seen so far in the 21st century? The one that caused a few folks on the left side of the peanut gallery to mumble, "in China, when they pull a stunt like this the CEO gets shot"? Yeah, about that...
Oh, don't worry. I know this is all a cover up, a giant conspiracy. Big oil wins again, right? It's what we get for having Bush and Cheney in office!
All that said and done, what remains to be seen is just WHAT the environmental impact of the beaucoup (to borrow from our Cajun kin) amounts of chemical dispersants BP has been using without any oversight to speak of.
In other words, IS the cure worse (or as bad as) the disease?
Posted by: Mark on August 4, 2010 02:12 PMI'm not sure about no oversight. Apparently the dispersants had to be approved by the EPA prior to use, so they shouldn't be too horribly bad long term, even though they do appear to be bad short term.
I'm with Scott here, though - it's incredibly interesting to note the difference between the level and volume of rhetoric since this has been released.
Posted by: Ron ap Rhys on August 4, 2010 04:21 PM