Is This Good News?

Filed in National by on July 27, 2010

The NYT reports that the oil slick is disappearing:

The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico appears to be dissolving far more rapidly than anyone expected, a piece of good news that raises tricky new questions about how fast the government should scale back its response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

The immense patches of surface oil that covered thousands of square miles of the gulf after the April 20 oil rig explosion are largely gone, though there continue to be sightings of tar balls and emulsified oil here and there.

Reporters flying over the area Sunday spotted only a few patches of sheen and an occasional streak of thicker oil, and radar images taken since then suggest that these few remaining patches are quickly breaking down in the warm surface waters of the gulf.

Is this good news? Did the oil slick find the Bermuda Triangle? Perhaps the use of dispersants actually helped? Spin your own conspiracy theories below.

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  1. Free Radical says:

    “Disappearing” + “Oil” trifecta in play: “Bush DoD lost $8,700,000,000 in Iraqi oil revenue”

    http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/7/27/888020/-Bush-DoD-lost-$8,700,000,000-in-Iraqi-oil-revenue

  2. a.price says:

    Rush LImbaugh and Haley Barbour were rigth!!!!

  3. the cajun says:

    NO!

    Scale BACK government response? They’ve never scaled UP! BP has always called the shots.