tanya77:

newsweek:

What the Spill Will Kill: Begley runs down the damage to the Gulf ecosystem: 

It is increasingly clear that the initial reports of undersea oil were right, that life-giving oxygen in the water column is indeed being depleted, and that unless the laws of chemistry have been repealed, dispersants are likely worsening the tentacles of undersea crude. What might have been just another oil spill—albeit a bad one—has been transformed into something unprecedented. Even if the containment dome lowered into place late last week continues to siphon off some of the leaking crude, the Deepwater Horizon disaster will enter the record books not for how much but for where: an enormous release of crude oil not only onto vulnerable shorelines and fragile marshes but into the largely unexplored depths of the sea. The consequences for the delicate balance of existence in the vulnerable ecosystems of the gulf, and for the vast cycles of nature that sustain life there and beyond, are as incalculable as they are potentially devastating.

Are we all boycotting ARCO stations and AMPM mini-marts yet? (both BP-owned) 

I’ve only seen an ARCO or AMPM outside of Texas, but I swear if I was in San Francisco still, I’d boycott the shit out of them. I’ve learned more about BP than I ever wanted to. I’ve read more from Doug Suttles and Thad Allen than ever needed to, and it makes me so disgusted that these people are in charge of the BP company, except for Adm. Thad Allen who is supposed to represent us.  It makes me sick to my stomach to think about everything, to see the photos of dead dolphins, and 150 miles (and growing) of oil in the ocean, oil in the marshes that can NEVER be cleaned out, and it makes me sad for the next generation of our children who will look back in our history books and ask WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY THINKING AND HOW THE FUCK DID THEY NOT HAVE A BACK UP PLAN?