What's worse than the spill itself? The clean up efforts, which include toxic chemicals, burn-offs that are further destroying the ecology in ways that can only be described as catastrophic! In all likelyhood, the result is going to be that the entire gulf area must be evacuated due to the presence of toxic fumes, chemicals.
I do not for one moment believe that any deadlines/penalties posed against the responsible parties will have any positive effect towards fixing the problem at hand. In fact, BP has gone so far off as to suggest refining/selling the spill oil at the gas pump! Now I know they claim they'll usee the profits for cleanup, but somehow I just can't believe that.
What Gulf residents must understand is that there is a state of Martial Law looming in the not too distant future, something that's terribly troubling...where are they going to relocate millions to? is the evacuation going to be mandatory? If you refuse, what penalties of law will you face?
For those affected by this spill, they must understand, the fresh water (drinking water) supply to the Tampa Bay area of Florida is going to be seriously impacted, due to the fact that water supply is brought from the ocean in the Gulf, desalinated and purified. The problem is that the filters which desalinate the water will quickly become clogged when the oil is sucked into the intake lines.
That being said, everyone should be storing fresh water, so when the filtration does fail, you will not be without water. Visit
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