BP Oil Spill Aftermath: Eyeless Shrimp, Clawless Crabs and Fish with Oozing Sores

[caseymoz]

13. But . . . But . . . that oil eating bacteria!

The administration assured us the oil was all gone, six weeks after the spill! I remember people on the DU2 forum in the Gulf saying we should all come down and enjoy the food, or they would go bankrupt! Yes, please poison yourself, enjoy our hospitality so we can have your money. Somehow, that wasn't the friendliest invitation I'd ever had.

I remember a woman calling into NPR who said she bought gas from BP so that poor company would have money to clean up the spill! Are we a nation of petro-suckers or what?

Again, on this issue, just like education, global warming, the Iraq war, the Bush tax cuts, and about three dozen government policies and actions taken since 2000, the left was right. Again, the news is so effectively suppressed in the domestic press so that it takes an overseas news organization to break the story. The left predicted this, not because of anti-business bias but because the we're informed of the science. Petroleum absorption is like taking a shotgun to an organism's DNA, and that's just one of its bad effects.

I'm so glad we have a free press, and a free enterprise system to corrupt it.