The States along the Gulf Coast and the Mississippi River need to begin to assess the long term affects on their wetlands and fisheries.
The 'Day of Oil' is over.
End of Discussion in regard to continuing this charade. The USA needs to move past this idiocy.
The tax base to these States are on the verge of collapse and now they are affected by more dynamics that will collapse them further. It has to stop.
The USA cannot continue to 'pretend' that Wall Street is a friend to its infrastructure.
IT IS NOT !
The States affected by this disaster have to examine their tax base, their tax distribution and reapportion monies to restoration efforts as soon as possible.
This is a matter of preserving the land and its resources to benefit the citizens that live there. The people that derive an income from the fisheries need to be hired by the State Governments through fiscal allotments to do this work under the supervision of scientists qualified to make assessments, formulate plans and continually assess the dynamics of the restoration as it unfolds.
The 3% of the Earth's REMAINING oil/gas reserves are best left to the discretion of future generations by some chance they might actually need it. Oil and gas are soon to become an insignificant element of the USA tax base and presence within its economy.
The USA cannot do without its fisheries. The plans to drill on the East and West Coast of the USA has to be stopped and all the States along those coasts have to prevent any occurrence to their coastal areas. The 'chance' that the East Coast could be affected by this disaster in the Gulf is still very, very real. The oil could enter the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current and travel great distances to erode any health of the East Coast fisheries.
The 'crude' will not simply breakdown on its own. It has to be removed and to realize that one will begin to realize how a coat of it will destroy microscopic organisms that are the base of any ecosystem that sustains remaining fisheries.
The circumstances surrounding this disaster are grave and needs to be treated as such.
To minimize the impact of this disaster is to doom the health of the fisheries and any potential recovery. Microscopic organisms don't 'show up' in 'landscape beauty' and it is why there has to be uncorrupted and qualified scientists 'running the show' and 'setting priorities.'
