I WAS WONDERING WHY THE MEDIA BLACKOUT IN THE FIRST PLACE, WAS THERE SOMETHING THEY DIDNT WANT US TO SEE OR NOT SEE? BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHY HAS NO ONE ASKED THE QUESTION, WHERE IS OUR "FREEDOM OF THE PRESS". THAT IS HOW FAR IT HAS COME IN MY HUMBLE OPINION. WE JUST ACCEPTED THE FACT THAT THE GOVT BLACKED OUT THE MEDIA SO THAT WAS THAT. I GUESS WE ALL ARE SHEEPLE AFTER ALL.

Originally posted by jimistoned

There is another major threat looming for inland towns and cities. With hurricane season in effect, there is a potential for ocean oil to be picked up by hurricane-driven rains and dropped into fresh water lakes and rivers, far from the ocean, thus adding to the pollution of water supplies and eco-systems.

Ok i dont live in US. . but if this happens OMG. . dont know what will happen. .it is a grave concern

Ummm, no. It's not a concern, nor even remotely a possibility. Oil can be blown by the wind. Oil can be moved along by the currents and disturbed by the waves. Oil cannot be evaporated and fall as rain because of a hurricane. Oil can be caught up in a waterspout, which doesn't last for long. It would come down as rain. Oil can be brought inland by a storm surge. No rain there. The hurricane would also blow some inland, but it would also blow some out.

So, unless you're talking about the areas that are usually affected by storm surges, your worrying yourself for nothing. Oh, and our hurricane season is still a few weeks off.

Straw was used over here (UK) when the tanker went down in Scotland..

Worked fine but an extremely messy clean up dragging them back in.

It is going to be a political issue now, and the fate of the economy hangs in the balance.

Regardless of what you want to believe, this unfortunate event in the gulf will be exploited for political gain.

Politically it can now be effectively argued that offshore drilling is too risky, so if we can't decrease our dependence on foreign oil then we must decrease our dependence on oil period.

Cap and trade anyone?

Naturally demand is going to only continue to grow, so the only logical way to reduce that demand is to raise the price so high that the demand will drop.

The problem is, we have already seen the snowball effect of higher fuel prices, and it will only serve to make an already bad economy much worse.

Alternative energy will not happen soon enough.

Eventually what will happen is you are going to be faced with much higher fuel costs.

Those higher fuel costs will be passed on to consumers in much higher costs for nearly everything and that will have an effect on people who are already struggling to get by on shrinking family budgets.... More mortgage failures, bad debt, bankruptcies and in record numbers beyond anything seen yet... more badness... more decline... Ultimately markets crash and it will be unstoppable this time no matter how much money the fed prints.

What we should do is drill more, despite the BP disaster, and we should do it anywhere and everywhere we can... But you know that isn't going to happen now... despite the fact that it will literally mean life or death for the economy.

They couldn't have planned for a better means to demonize oil exploration and drilling... And the timing was incredibly perfect.

Learn to say goodbye to your way of life now, if you haven't already... Things are going to change dramatically over the next 2 to 3 years.

It isn't going to be good.