Even With a Cleanup, Spilled Oil Stays With Us

BP, in a series of newspaper advertisements about the Deepwater Horizon disaster, says it is “working around the clock to contain and collect most of the leak” and it will “take full responsibility for cleaning up the spill.”
But if past catastrophes are guides, the cleanup by BP workers will capture only a fraction of the crude belched up by the broken well. Much of the oil will be taken care of by nature; the rest is likely to stay with us for decades.


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BP Comes Up With Latest Plan To Stem "Oil Gusher" In US Gulf

Following the failure of its "top-kill" plan to cap the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, British Petroleum (BP) is now planning to try out another high-risk attempt to deal with the worst environmental disaster in American history.

The latest plan, which will take at least a week to be executed, involves placing a cap over the leak which will be done using robots.
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Gulf oil spill now largest in U.S. history as BP continues plug effort

NEW ORLEANS — The Gulf of Mexico oil spill has spewed more oil than originally estimated, surpassing the Exxon Valdez tanker disaster in 1989 in Alaska to become the biggest oil disaster in U.S. history, federal scientists said Thursday.


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20 THINGS YOU WILL NEED TO SURVIVE WHEN THE ECONOMY COLLAPSES AND THE NEXT GREAT DEPRESSION BEGINS

Today, millions of Americans say that they believe that the United States is on the verge of a major economic collapse and will soon be entering another Great Depression.  But only a small percentage of those same people are prepared for that to happen.  The sad truth is that the vast majority of Americans would last little more than a month on what they have stored up in their homes. Will you be one of them?
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