So Limbaugh Was Right About The Oil In The Gulf?
 

First off...I'm not starting this thread to begin a fight between "conservatives" and "liberal" here on GFY. I'm just saying what I have seen on the news:

I'm watching the news right now. And they are saying that almost all of the oil in the gulf is...GONE.

And they are saying that 25% of the oil has already been eaten by microbes and is gone completely.

The rest of it is in tiny, tiny diluted form and is being taken care of "naturally" as well!

This is EXACTLY what the news was reporting a month ago that Rush Limbaugh claimed and they were giving him hell for saying it!

Limbaugh said on his radio show that the oil was part of nature and that nature would take care of it.

Everybody (including me) thought he was full of shit. All the news organizations gave him hell.

Weird, today none of the news organizations have mentioned that Limbaugh was right after all. lol

Bush / Limbaugh 2012

What news station? Ive heard the same thing. Would be whacked out if true. But what are the side effects of those microbes eating all that oil?

I am no expert, but is sounds about right. Nobody cleans shit up like Mother Nature. Just need a nice ADG pic of people getting swept away by a hurricane bellow.:thumbsup

Actually yeah, Rush was 100% right from day one, wow

that the oil is gone is bullshit. a popular meme right now but wholly false.

i'm sure fletch could give you a more realistic perspective.

25% not all.

well if it is true that the oil has gone Limbaugh was just lucky saying that because hes an ranting idiot

That is actually true. Oil leaking from the earth's crust is not uncommon and there are microbes that eat it up, but it takes time and dispersants may inhibit the natural process.

It got me thinking...

Also yesterday on CNN they were talking about a BIGGER spill that took place in the Gulf of Mexico.

It happened in 1979 off the coast of Mexico. Well, I was 18 years old then. And I had never even HEARD of that spill! And I asked my Mom about it (she still lives in Fla. near Tampa where my whole family is), and she had never heard of it either!

I guess back in 1979 before 24 hour news organizations...that the oil company did the best they could (that oil well spewed into the ocean for TEN STRAIGHT MONTHS before they could stop it) and nature did the rest. And the general public never even noticed it.

I'm kinda wondering if the media knew all of this but didn't report it because the story of ecological DISASTER was so much better for ratings. I know it had me glued to the television and I was sure this was going to destroy the ocean.

The Earth doesn't care about us. The planet laughs at us and our worries.

There is absolutely NOTHING we could do to destroy the Earth. Do people actually think it's a far fetched idea that the planet at one time opened itself a fissure releasing a billion times more fossil fuels into the ocean during a cataclysmic event? Of course it has. It just sucks because we have to deal with it because we are "newbies" on this planet and for some reason we think we are important and can fix things. Wrong.

The only thing mankind can destroy is it's own species (along with the other plants and animals that happen to reside along side us). It will adjust, it will repair. We may be gone but the planet will keep on spinning.

http://image.vodconcepts.com/image/s...t-5141.2-0.jpg

Methane eating worms changing diet?

That is cool...

The fishing industry is back on track

Yeah, the leak in '79 was only 200 feet down too compared to the mile down the current leak is.

....Because the government told them to drill there.... :Oh crap

I've got an oil rig for sale if you believe that crap.

Your rhetoric sounds very similar to a skit done by the late, great George Carlin.

The only think that isn't going to clean itself is the beaches.

Sure does and they are both right.

i don't see how its possible really when there are still remnants from the exxon valdez spill 20 years later

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0414111018.htm

I think I may have read somewhere that this is due partly to oil eating microbes surviving in warmer weather better than cold, but don't quote me on it.

Sure, the oil is all gone now, and the water is perfectly clean again!

Tax breaks for the rich stimulate the economy.

Aspertane is a perfectly safe sugar substitute.

The war in Iraq will take 6 days tops, and shouldn't exceed $2 Billion.

George Bush was a great president.

Porn is not desensitizing...

You name it - I believe it!

Well as long as he still advocates for the trickle down theory, he's a dumbass.

I remember seeing a show about the microbs eating the oil
They are starting the fishing back up and the FDA has cleared eating the fish they catch, but I have to wonder if this is just a way to make us forget about it

That's what I was thinking too.

Maybe the microbes that are capable of eating the oil can't live in cold environments?

of course the planet isn't going to die due to the oil spill. who the fuck says that? straw man.

the fact is that fucked up tons of peoples lives, the economy and made peoples lives polluted and toxic.

that is reality. and a story in time and a rant from a drug addicted hypocrite doesn't change that.

hilarious but why you assume people only want to save the earth and don't care about their own existance is hilariously stupid.

people who live in the area sure the fuck aren't buying the oil is gone bs.

read some local news from the area. don't be a dumbass.

It a burp man, a burp in the evolutionary cycle of the planet. When you burp, do you worry about having a heart attack and dying? Fuck that shit brother.

Some of you tree hugging hippies make me laugh. You are so worried about dying, that by the time death comes knocking on your door it will be too late because your never actually lived in the first place due to the fact that you spent your entire existence worried about dying in the first place.

You guys are going off on political rants here. lol

Nobody cares what I or any of you think about politics.

My main point was that I believe the media knew that the oil would be naturally taken care of...but didn't care to report it like that because they wanted ratings and money.

Not a big deal. I don't blame them one bit. I'd do that same exact thing.

I'm just relieved that things ARE going to get better in the gulf and it won't take "decades" to do it.

The media KNEW about the bigger leak in the Gulf from 1979 and KNEW that there were no long term effects that lasted "decades" but they just didn't bother telling us about it.

It was much better television to dramatize it and scare the shit out of me. lol

I heard about the oil eating bacteria after the first Gulf War.

The immense quantities of oil the Iraqis dumped in the Persian Gulf on the way out supposedly vanished completely.

Was surprised nobody was bringing up the bacteria with this spill.

And you know the news channels knew about that too. And didn't say a word. In fact, according to what they were telling us to keep us all scared...The Gulf Of Mexico should have already been ruined for "decades" from the much bigger leak in 1979
And the Persian Gulf should be ruined now and ruined for more "decades" from the first Gulf War.

this clip talks about the spill you were mentioning in 1979. Interesting stuff.

I doubt all the oil is gone and all the people making their living fishing those waters are back to work, don't believe everything you read.

Saw something yesterday that said a lot of fishermen in Louisiana COULD go back to fishing right now. The waters they fish in have been re-opened. But they interviewed them and the fishermen were saying that they are making more money working for BP cleaning the marshes than they would bringing fish to market. So for now they aren't going out.

and what did you do that was so great in your life? bang whores? impressive...maybe people are worried about the condition they are leaving their surroundings in for their offspring. you want to simplify things and go on some kind of carlin like rant, thats great but it solves nothing.

Well, you know what they say.... "even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

(Nerdly Caveat: So long as said clock doesn't have an AM/PM indicator on it.)

so much for the gfy oil spill experts!

the 1979 spill was smaller, btw.

so, out of the 200 million gallons that was spewed into the gulf, a little over 50 million gallons remains.

50 million gallons is 4 times larger than Exxon Valdez, so its nothing to burp at, but I think the larger question is what happens in time...the oil from the Valdez is still being found because it is in coves and such with minimal water movement. Luckily the gulf is large enough to disperse more and hopefully continue to naturally evaporate or dissolve what is remaining. But do spill upon spill change ecosystems in the area? Nature can move in a very slow speed, we honestly have no idea the long term effects this will bring.