Gulf coast oil spill

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

If oil was the same density as water it probably wouldn't seem like such a big deal. Problem is that it floats to the top and we are basically measuring surface area instead of volume.

Lots of evidence points to the fact that oil disperses much deeper than the surface, and that has been aided by the chemicals they have been spraying on to facilitate that process.

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Lots of evidence points to the fact that oil disperses much deeper than the surface, and that has been aided by the chemicals they have been spraying on to facilitate that process.

I'm not doubting that. I'm sure it affects marine life no matter the depth and I recently read an article about how the oil spill will be harmful to deep sea (no sunlight deep) marine life. My post was just a response to xoxoxoBruce's post, where many of the statistics pointed out the oil to water ratio is actually EXTREMELY small. Most of the oil floats to the surface, our main vantage point, so it seems much worst in that respect. And I'm sure even an extremely small ratio of oil to water is harmful to most marine life.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yes the ratio of oil to water is small, but it only takes a little oil to fuck up a lot of water.

I only posted that quote as an example of the information war afoot.

Here's another.
Endangered Sea Turtles Burned In BP Spill Clean-up.