The Rule of law doesn't apply.

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Lied? They've supplied streaming video of the plume. ISTM they simply guesstimated. It's not like they could catch it and count the buckets.

If I were a left-wingnut, I'd point out that BP gave Mr. Obama $1M and imply they got special treatment.

Or that Mr. Obama's appointee to head the supervising agency, was a light-weight environmentalist, a Harvard (environmental) law review buddy, a crony, and not a qualified master of her assigned duties. IOW, another egg-head Marxist in control of stuff she doesn't understand.

The whole incident is really a wonderful advertisement for the power and efficacy of government oversight. Like with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae's boatloads of regulators, and how effectively they protected us all.

"Whoopsie, missed that. Must've been an oversight."

-- Cheers, James Arthur

immigration laws.

dispersant.

crude oil

surface.

Most likely PB down things by not using the more inclusive and more accurate word detergent. Lots of people think dish soap or laundry soap instead of detergent though there is usually no soaps in the store products.

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And waiting for more of something that may work better is a better decision how?

So a glyphosphate is not the active ingredient in Roundup?

Proper MSDS here:

Both products contain seriously automotive antifreeze like solvent components. Dispersit is almost only that.

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seawater.

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Actually the current inspections may have done the job if rigorously enforced. See also Massey coal mine operations.

Regarding title of this thread, one can thank Obama for killing business contract law...Government Motors (GM) for one.. GM bond holders are not exactly happy..

Dumbing down to dumber than dumb then.

Doing nothing at all may actually be preferable to adding dispersant. It is more finely balanced and the gains tend to be largely cosmetic.

The thing that kills green plants (and malaria parasites) is virtually harmless to humans and other mammals. The operatives so dumb as to eat their lunch drenched in concentrate were poisoned by the wetting agents. It is PEOA that causes the animal toxicity not the glyphosate.

It is still marginally more benign than the stuff in use.

You have to have a common solvent. Oil and water do not mix.

Quite possibly but it seems the inspection regime can be compromised by the copious amounts of money in the oil company coffers. They use the same methods to keep congress critters in their pockets and to subvert the reporting of the science of climate change.

Regards, Martin Brown

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Is it available in the quantities desired?

Except for some cooking uses (and then primarily for organic oils instead of mineral oils), yes.

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OK. That is was my point.

Climate change is many hundreds to thousands of years, a decade or two is weather.

ion laws.

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"The presence of underwater plumes carries implications for deep-sea life because tiny microbes eat up that and consume oxygen, choking off the supply to other organisms. The impact could cascade up the food chain, cutting off the food supply of larger predators."

Hey, why not oxygenate / aerate the deeps? Bubble air or add oxygenates. That'd let the bacteria bloom, and minimize breathing problems of other animals. Self-limiting, too--just withdraw the O2, and the bacteria fade away.

-- Cheers, James Arthur

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It's a little-known threat.

laws.

Oh, my! Think of all the CO2.

Or perhaps a little, known threat.

Worse: bacteria farts. Silent, but deadly.