was far from the founding fathers minds....

so beautiful down there. getting so crushed.

love you gulf coast.. stay strong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmODHWpukAw

i guess corexit only 'corrects it' if one is attempting to lo-ball BP's liability for the spill.

little known tidbit: the original name for this class of sweep-it-under-the-rug bio-killers was 'hidezit-kwik'

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Republicans Block Investigative Power for Oil Spill Commission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOAKBjYNHW0&fe...

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....that they can get more bang for their buck by donating to the Republican/Facist Party?

Our Chernobyl.

Those toxicity tests don't tell the half of it. Dispersants may test a some level of toxicity and the oil at another. Seperately, They may be tolerable, but the dispersant form what is called a non-breaking emulsion. They dissolve the oil so that it won't seperate out into an oil layer and an aqueous layer. In all the toxicity testing I've done over the years, the toxicity effect is highly synergistic. The slang we use to describe such mixes is "death juice", if that gives you an idea. As a result of such testing, there are entire classes of compounds that we not only will not use, but will not even allow to be brought onto the property.

Not to sound alarmist, and acknowledging the near miraculous power the ecoshpere has to heal itself (if it would only be left alone and allowed to...), but the shear magnitude of this spill and the magnitude of application of these compounds could be an ocean-killing event. the only consideration here seems to be impact on profits. They clearly care nothing about doing the right thing. I wonder how that will change when all of this oil is finally transported to British shores by the gulf stream?