Likewise, oil sunk by dispersants doesn’t wash up on the beach—again, a good thing in smaller spills. Here, though, it ends up creating a threat to underwater ecosystems, especially coral reefs.

If I was a public relations goon I’d probably advise BP that it’s better to destroy a reef than a beach. Televised images of destroyed beachfront property and oil-soaked pelicans do a lot more damage than reports about dead anemones.

(Oil + Corexit 9500 / Evaporation ) + Hurricane =??

That’s why I say: The only winning move is not to drill.

Until recently, BP would have said “Profit!!” but now I think the plan is to have the oil inundate New Orleans to finish the job. At this point, I think Iran is paying them to destroy the US. The tankers the oil is being put into will most likely be used to spread oil slicks to both coasts.

The whole issue of oil plumes in water was nicely studied by the MMS some time ago in 2000, but never quite released for another 5 years:

Project “Deep Spill”
http://www.mms.gov/tarprojects/377.htm

A joint industry project (JIP) was formed between the MMS and 23 different oil companies to conduct this research. The project consisted of an experimental release of oil and gas conducted in June 2000 off the coast of Norway. Mixtures of crude oil and natural gas, diesel oil and natural gas, as well as only natural gas were released at approximately 800 meters water depth. The goal was to simulate a blowout or pipeline rupture in deep water and obtain data to verify the predictions of a deep water blowout model being developed under a separate contract. In another, related, research project, experiments were conducted in a simulated deep ocean environment created in a high pressure chamber located at the University of Hawaii.

So the story we should be discussing is somewhat different than this simple denial of reality when one issue is why we seem to accept their position as having any validity at all.

An even larger issue is why we have allowed this pursuit of greed to destroy the Gulf ocean’s environment as some simple cost of their business, in order to serve our apparent need for cheap gasoline.

Here’s a link:
http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doctype/2931/53979/

I wonder how fast BP is moving equipment and other resources to completely offshore entities.

I suspect this “we will fix all the issues generated by the oil spill” stance will go away after a long set of delaying tactics.

But of course, I’m a paranoid type fellow.

Correct name: CoralExit