No, they don’t mix, do they?
Only about 300 barrels of spilled oil have been recaptured since this morning so the Mississippi River is clogged, shut down, and oil prices are in the balance from this disaster which occurred Wednesday morning when an oil barge being piloted by an apprentice pilot collided with a freighter and broke in half, spilling its oily cargo.
New Orleans is still suffering and only partially repopulated by her former residents and now this – hundreds of miles of the river are shut down all the way to New Orleans.
It’s too soon to know the environmental and the financial impact of these many of gallons of oil spillage, but thankfully clean-up efforts are already underway. I’m wishing them good fortune and the wind at their backs for this endeavor.
And in Washington today, Republicans blocked the use of the nation’s oil reserves which would have done little enough, I agree, but some people say its use would have brought down prices at the gas pump.
Repubs are so predictable, aren’t they? Let’s see: help the common joe’s faltering budget…or…further enrich self and elite pals….such a dilemma, which one to choose? You know that screwing America must be a lot of fun, because they sure engage in it a lot.
But lest I sound like a Dem supporter, they’re all culpable. Enablers and pseudo-Dems are responsible, too, especially when there’s a gaggle of Washington politicians who have energy portfolios that would make your old Aunt Granny Fanny mad as h*ll if she knew about them and how they were fattened up at the taxpayers expense!
Thick tarry oil and river water – not exactly the gumbo you’d want for your New Orleans dinner, cherie.
But it could be part of a perfect buffet for oil speculators and their enablers wherever the culprits skulk.
