random thoughts

this morning i heard a woman who lives in louisiana say BP's dispersants are making it harder to keep the oil from reaching shore because when it gets broken up it comes in below the surface.

a few days after the blowout i heard somebody say it would be easier to plug a hole on the moon than a mile underwater.

till now the biggest accidental oil spill in history was the ixtoc I in 1979 in the bay of campeche of the gulf of mexico. the water depth was only 160 feet, but it took nearly 10 months to cap the well!

the oil slick surrounded rancho nuevo, in the mexican state of tamaulipas, which is one of the few nesting sites for kemp's ridley sea turtles. thousands of baby sea turtles were airlifted to a clean portion of the gulf of mexico to help save the rare species.

those who complain loudest that the response is too slow ought to consider how long this disaster was in the making, and how many warning signs we had, yet everybody who had any influence insisted nothing could go wrong.

if you only think about the best-case scenario, you won't prepare for any other possibility.