Two weeks ago we were being told the majority of the Oil Spilled was "mostly" gone ...
How did five million barrels of oil simply disappear?
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs points to a pie chart on the BP oil spill during the Daily White House Press Briefing, Washington, DC.
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Now, University of South Florida, Marine Scientists are reporting Science has a different tale, to tell ...
How did five million barrels of oil simply disappear?
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs points to a pie chart on the BP oil spill during the Daily White House Press Briefing, Washington, DC.
AFP/ Getty Images
OK there you go -- Only about 26% Residual Oil is left.
"Residual" -- that's like "smoke" -- like the Morning Fog.
That doesn't sound so bad. ... It should be gone in No Time, right?
Don't bet on it.
Even NOAA Administrator, Jane Lubchenco, still has some concerns ...
The oil has gone? Tell that to Gulf coast residents
By Rupert Cornwell, independent.co.uk -- 6 August 2010
And though only a quarter of the 4.9m barrels reckoned to have leaked is still unaccounted, that represents the equivalent of five Exxon Valdez, the tanker whose spill caused an environmental catastrophe in Alaska in 1989.
"There are still boats out there every day working, finding turtles with oil on them and seeing grass lines with oil in it," charter boat captain Randy Boggs, of Orange Beach in Alabama, told the Associated Press. "All the oil isn't accounted for. There are millions of pounds of tar balls and oil on the bottom."
Turns out, This -- TIMES 5 --
IS mostly STILL There! ... lurking somewhere, just below the surface ...
OH NOES!
Just when you thought the worse was over ...
BP to scale back some oil response units, new leader pledges to stay for long haul
by Doug Mouton / Northshore Bureau Chief
wwltv.com -- July 30, 2010
How much oil is in the Gulf now is up for debate. Several Louisiana leaders, including St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis have argued that million of gallons of oil are underwater, waiting to surface.
"We haven't found that," [Bob] Dudley [new BP CEO] said.
Dudley said six ships and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are working to locate underwater oil.
"It's a big hunt going on right now," Dudley said. "It's going to keep going on."
Hey BOB! -- MAYBE you haven't "found it" because of 1.8 Million Gallons of Toxic Dispersants you managed to spray -- Kept much of it Underwater, eh?
They'll find ALL that missing Oil -- just give them some more time ... that's all they ask ...
