The Coast Guard is apparently reporting that the long term effects of last year's oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico are apparently "marginal." Not negligible, but marginal, and of course that is wonderful news.
The irony? Well, NOAA reports on the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico resulting primarily from runoff from farm fields, and this indicates that the most dangerous thing to a healthy ecosystem there is......
....grain and ethanol subsidies. So the environmentally "safe" fuel, ethanol, is apparently far more dangerous to our oceans than catastrophic disasters in petroleum production.
Happy Independence Day
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As the nation creeps up on a 250th birthday, at a time when it’s better to
be a human being than at any time in recorded history, in large part due to
the ...
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