Nowhere in this article does there appear to be a measurement of the level of toxics in this stuff. Sure there are dioxins, but how much? If the answer is "enough so that we can detect it", I don't care. We consume virtually every toxic substance at some stage, the problem is the dose. If the dose is safe then eat stuff with dioxins, uranium, whatever, it's not like you could avoid it. Depending on the dose this article could be an enormously important and life-saving piece of journalism or a mindless emotional rant from someone who doesn't understand basic toxicology. In future please include the information that allows me to tell the difference.
The amount of mistakes BP has made concerning this event is nothing short of criminal. Everybody knows and accecpts the chances of an oil spill, but we also expect the "people in charge" to know how to deal with one when it happens. I for one would like to look on the positive side of this and hope that in the future this vessel is dispersed quickly and efficiantly.
Dispersants, from what I've been told, are powerful detergents. I get dishpan hands while cleaning my dishes. I just can't help but think that the creatures in the gulf are being destroyed, like having to breathe a chemical that "cleans away" the oils and fats that are a part of their body.
To an extent it seems to me that letting the oil coagulate into larger and larger blobs, i.e. not using dispersants, would have been the wiser thing to do. At some point the blobs become too big to eat for the smaller creatures and the larger creatures will learn not to eat them. Plus it make raking them up easier.
But what do I know?
Big money gets to poison us anyway they like. Whether it be pesticides, chemicals, or pharmaceuticals.
Somehow this has to stop.
Don
The amount of mistakes BP has made concerning this event is nothing short of criminal. Everybody knows and accecpts the chances of an oil spill, but we also expect the "people in charge" to know how to deal with one when it happens. I for one would like to look on the positive side of this and hope that in the future this vessel is dispersed quickly and efficiantly.
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