Oily Oysters (Or "Early Erstas" if you prefer.)

[infrogmation]

Another oyster bucket of BPocalypse links.

Boston Globe Big Pictures: Scenes from the Gulf of Mexico


McClatchy Newspapers: Health fears over BP plan to burn huge amounts of oil

CNN editorial by James Carville: Louisiana demands justice, not charity

Special historical bonus:

YouTube video: 1960 American Petroleum Institute "informative" film about oyster farmers in Louisiana who are angry at the oil drilling industry. Well, guess what? The oil isn't hurting the oysters. In fact, they love oily water.

And if you can swallow them erstas, no doubt you believe everything Tony Hayward has been saying too.

Note that the Petroleum Institute funded "research" is conducted at Texas A & M; insert Aggie joke here.

Comments

[jdquintette.livejournal.com]

Some chucklehead in the TP was pushing the ""burn the oil" trope the other day. Like "what's the big deal? America burns more than that in our cars every hour." Apparently in his mind there's no difference between refined gasoline and crude oil.

I'm sorry to say, but there's almost a Karmic retribution side to torching the spill like Saddam's oil fields. Gawd.

Oh, and have you noticed how it's now "equally" BP's AND "the government's" fault? Way to move those goalposts, wingnuts. Soon it'll be "if the government hadn't got in the way, BP would have fixed this by now."