BP's Tony Hayward puts oil spill in minimal context. Satire @ http://bit.ly/9WUv1Z

Cool to see on CBS News tonight our US Coast

Guard stating "that you can't go in there and take pictures" the US Coast Guard sailor said "BP told us to say that".

Now we know who the boss is.

I hate censorship and BP is full of that and spin control.

We will have to wait for the giant BP Atlantis rig to be

inspected ,but BP won't allow that either it is another potential disaster that will make this bad explosion look like an amateur play.

The Atlantis rig is 32 times larger than this killer rig.

The 60 Minutes interview this past Sunday was stunning.

Once again we have another genius in the federal government reminding us not to jump to any conclusions, as though the 5 million gallon spill that might actually be as large as 15 million gallons is not a solid enough event to explain why balls of tar are washing up on Florida's shores.

Just as the sudden deaths of dolphins and other wildlife in the very Gulf where the spill occurred might actually be a result of children urinating at an abnormally high frequency.

I would encase in cement the wives, children and relatives of the BP execs responsible and drop them in the hole. That might actually work to stop the leak.

I hear Fire Island vacationers are actually pretty excited about this because they won't have to worry about forgetting to pack lube.

Why do they look like people vacationing on the beach if they're a "crew collecting samples"

See the heavy buckets? Just because they're "working" doesn't mean they need to be in a suit and tie.

Under reported? Do you live in a cave? Gothamist has a daily posting on the spill and it doesn't even have anything to do with NYC.

That's a little short sighted.

The vast, vast majority of the oil released from this catastrophe is nowhere near the surface, it's all mostly underwater.

Thermohaline Circulation, aka The Great Ocean Conveyor

I give it until the end of this summer before this shit starts washing up on the shores of Northern Europe.

P.S. Take a look at where the Gulf, and then where NY is on the conveyor, and tell me again how this doesn't have anything to do with NYC.

Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said Monday in an interview on PBS’s “NewsHour”: “By the time the oil is in the loop current, it’s likely to be very, very diluted. And so it’s not likely to have a very significant impact. It sounds scarier than it is.”

Hope this makes you feel better. Oil naturally evaporates in the water and is also digested by microrganism. It doesn't float around the world forever.

I guess it all just goes on autopilot to NJ

Oil naturally evaporates in the water and is also digested by microrganism. It doesn't float around the world forever.

Unending quantities of oil that by most accounts they have no way of stopping at that depth?

I find it hard for anyone from NOAA to make such a comment when, to my knowledge anyway, there is NO precedent to make such a claim.

I mean, honestly, when was the last time that we poked a hole in a massive oil and gas well a mile under the sea, and just let it bleed out for weeks on end?

There is no precedent, period.

This is uncharted territory, and at this point they're just trying to keep the gulf states (and the rest of the world, for that matter) calm by feeding them the tripe that “By the time the oil is in the loop current, it’s likely to be very, very diluted. And so it’s not likely to have a very significant impact. It sounds scarier than it is.”

And yet, here it is, in the loop current, washing up on the beach in Key West, undiluted.

Look man, I'm no more alarmist then the next rational person out there, but you're blind if you think that this situation isn't a million times worse than they're letting on. This is bad, and it's only going to get worse.

Dilutes in water, indeed...

OK, you believe whatever you want. I am hoping to get a good deal on a beach vacation this summer because everyone else reads these ridiculous predictions. An oil spill that never hits shore and evaporates at sea doesn't sell newspapers I guess.

I don't know if you're obvious troll being obvious and I'm completely missing it, or you're being serious...

...but how does the submerged plume of the oil that never makes it to the surface, or the oil re-submerged by the use of dispersants (which eventually coagulates beneath the surface and stays there for a spell) evaporate BELOW the surface of the ocean?

(Remember, evaporation can only happen at the surface of a liquid into the atmosphere...)

Have fun on vacation. :o)

Ha, i am being totally serious. Beneath the surface, microrganisms digest the oil. That was the concern with the plume in the first place -- too many microrganisms at work digesting the oil would deplete oxygen levels in parts of the Gulf.

Maybe there should be a Congressional Inquiry into why this story has been so under reported. Perhaps the British Petroleum Company owns a large stake in all of Washington as well as the world press.

Got Oil?

I'm also concerned about what the upcoming hurricane season will do to churn this stuff up even more... yikes.

The bastards at MMS and BP and the oil rig's parent company should be made to live near the biggest part of the spill and subsist entirely off of seafood until the mess is cleaned up.

Seriously, the amount of FAIL available to share among these entities is appalling. There's a special place in Hell reserved for these folks.

It's not easy being green. Many things have to die before it's still too late.