Originally Posted by
mrdc
http:///forum/post/3270472
Who was the quack on Rush recently talking about the oil spill? Well Rush can make some quacky comments too. Anyway, the guy on Rush was talking about how the ocean will break the oil up and break it down and no harm done. He also talked about how the ocean leaches oil everyday and harms nothing. He then went on to say where is the oil? I can go to the gulf beaches and I don’t see any oil.
Rush went on to say how the ecology is resilient and can handle the oil. He said “saltwater is some tough stuff, you try living in it”. WTF?
Talk about minimizing this disaster.
What did he say that was not true?
The ocean breaks down oil every day. True. (the reason for the drop in o2 surrounding those underwater oil column, the micro bacteria consuming more o2 while it breaks down the oil) That is the whole idea behind using emulsifiers. It breaks down the oil and takes it lower into the water column where the oil eating bacteria can go to work on it...
Oil and natural gas leech into the oceans every day. True
As for the where is the oil comment, in context, he was discussing the salaciousness of news. There still isn't the waves of oil washing ashore. Just a sheen hitting a few of LA's delta islands... True.
If you'd listen to Rush, he didn't marginalize it at all... The argument he's made is 2 fold, (at least in my mind) this isn't the end of the world. (points to larger spills in the gulf) And says this is precisely the type of disaster the U.S. Government was designed to help solve. This is the role of government. (which would STRONGLY indicate that he isn't marginalizing it...)