Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill wow James carville is still hammering the hell out of the government tonight. Mary Matalin sounds more like the Democratic adviser than her husband.
Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill well, given he's home grown, i can see why he is infuriated. pubs may not like his politics, but when it comes to louisiana, he is definitely a home boy! its nice seeing him put home above politics!
Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill I agree. It is awesome to see he is putting home over party. It was jsut odd to watch. She was defending Obama, and he was taking shots.
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Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill Here are two good updates, one links to the other: Gulf Oil Spill – The Latest | The Hayride BP sees progress on Macondo - Upstream Online
Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill Depending on whomever you speak to, this could be good or bad. Some feel that the oil will prevent the ocean from evaporating and dissipate the hurricane before it ever really gets rolling. Also, oil might prevent the water from easily forming ripples when the wind blows potentially resulting in less of a storm surge. Then there is the argument that the oil will result in further heat (black absorbing sunlight and all) absorption in the already warm waters in the area serve to prevent evaporative cooling to balance out any solar heating. Either way, it's likely that the high winds would mix the oil and water sinking the crude below the surface.
Re: Oil Rig explosion/Gulf Oil Spill I don't buy this one bit. The oil will not affect a hurricane much at all. It will be the other way around. Crude is lighter than water. Until the volatiles evaporate, the oil will float. Eventually the heaviest tar ball will begin to sink and eventually drop to the bottom. The dispersants that they are using are causing this to happen faster. What a hurricane will do is to churn the surface, breaking up big slicks and doing even more dispersing, but the oil will still float until its lighter elements evaporate. If it were out in the Atlantic, a hurricane might be great to break up a slick and keep land from being heavily oiled. This close to shore and with the very low-lying coast that we have, the storm surge is going to keep the main headlands from being oiled so thickly, but it will spread thinner amounts of oil much further into the marsh . . . all the way to the limits of the storm surge.
