The question we are trying to answer here is, “how are oil seeps different from oil spills?” Oil seeps occur constantly, throughout the Gulf. Although they do release a lot of oil together over time, their individual spill rates are far, far lower than the Deepwater Horizon gusher. What’s more, these much smaller seeps are dispersed around the Gulf, so each seep’s oil can be degraded quickly.
That is not what happens in an oil spill. It is true that the amount of oil that has spilled from this gusher so far is less than the ANNUAL AGGREGATE of all 600+ seeps in the Gulf. But it’s all coming out at the same time, in the same place. The water in one location can only degrade so much oil at one time; an oil spill goes far beyond overwhelming the ocean’s natural oil-coping mechanisms.
Natural Oil Seeps vs. Oil Spills The Political Climate
Furthermore the seeps are mostly from near surface reserves. The deeper the reserve the more compounds are found in the crude oil as well.
Oh, so there were never any oil slicks prior to republicans and whites converting oil into energy?
Holy shit liberals are fucked up.
I suppose the tar balls found on every beach in the world also came from the right wingers.
Fucking morons.
The indians on the gulf coast used to chew the shit like gum.
Damn those asshole indian republicans and their tar balls!!!