{"id":1813,"date":"2010-06-10T02:14:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T09:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2010-06-10T02:14:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T09:14:37","slug":"bp-lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/10\/bp-lions-and-tigers-and-bears-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"BP: Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not surprising that young Dorothy, discovering that this isn\u2019t Kansas anymore, would say \u201cOh My!\u201d over the prospect of lions and ligers and bears.  I\u2019m not so young or innocent, but I\u2019m saying \u201cOh My!\u201d over the prospect of the Walruses and Sea Lions and Seals that BP promised to protect in the Gulf of Mexico.  That isn\u2019t the worst of it!<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"BP-whatplumes\"<\/a> An oceanographer just back from two weeks of taking water samples in the Gulf of Mexico told a House panel on Wednesday that BP officials are utterly wrong to keep saying there are no large masses of oil lurking below the surface.<\/p>\n

"I think part of the problem is that it depends on what the definition of ‘large’ is," said Samantha Joye, a senior marine scientist at the University of Georgia. "I don’t know what their definition of large is, but I’ll bet it’s not the same as mine."<\/p>\n

Joye’s instruments, deployed from a University of Miami research vessel, the Walton Smith, detected both the presence of oil and the depletion of oxygen in very deep water — 900 to 1200 meters below the surface — in a plume five to eight miles away from the leak site. As she explained in an interview: "All of the sensors we have to pick up oil and its various components go crazy in the plume." <\/p>\n

Lab results from one of the first research vessels doing subsurface tests found only minor concentrations of oil<\/a>, but Joye, who is expecting test results back shortly, said her samples will inevitably show more than that. "These stank to high heaven," she said. "They smelled like creosote, asphalt and diesel."<\/strong><\/p>\n

"These plumes are real," she said, "and it’s not just oil." Joye, who blogged her research<\/a>, said she is also very concerned about the concentrations of methane and other gases, such as ethane, propane, butane and pentane, in the water\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Common Dreams<\/a>><\/p>\n

From the beginning, BP has fed us lie after lie.  Keith Olbermann and environmentalist Rick Steiner discuss BP\u2019s many deficiencies and deceptions.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

BP claims that a line has to be drawn somewhere.  I agree.  Let\u2019s start here:<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"BigOilTaxBreaks\"<\/a> Sen. Bernie Sanders is pushing a measure to end more than $35 billion in tax breaks for the oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n

The Vermont independent today proposed putting $25 billion in savings toward reducing the deficit and $10 billion toward the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program over five years. Such funds help municipalities build windmills, make energy efficiency improvements or improve sewer treatment plants.<\/p>\n

"If there is anything we should be learning from the Gulf disaster, it is that it is time to move aggressively away from polluting and unsafe fossil fuels, which are getting more and more difficult to produce as we move further and further offshore to drill for them," he said in a statement. "And, with a $13 trillion national debt, the last thing we need to be doing is giving tax breaks to big oil and gas companies that have been making record-breaking profits year after year after year."\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Common Dreams<\/a>><\/p>\n

Furthermore, Obama should demand that BP not spend a penny in dividends to shareholders or brand advertising until the GOP gusher is plugged, the environment restored, and the victims justly compensated.<\/font><\/p>\n

Next I expect BP to ask us to be thankful, because they have not killed one freaking Polar Bear in the Gulf of Mexico!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not surprising that young Dorothy, discovering that this isn\u2019t Kansas anymore, would say \u201cOh My!\u201d over the prospect of lions and ligers and bears.  I\u2019m not so young or innocent, but I\u2019m saying \u201cOh My!\u201d over the prospect of the Walruses and Sea Lions and Seals that BP promised to protect in the Gulf […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}