On May 27, 1:21*pm, hk wrote:
In article 6fd85586-f52e-40e5-b2af-3af9a6c2b731
@o12g2000vba.googlegroups.com, says...





On May 27, 12:53*pm, "YukonBound" wrote:
"hk" wrote in message

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On 5/27/10 11:34 AM, YukonBound wrote:
Caught this item on CNN.
Those cleanup boat workers need to be told that the oil spill is no big
deal.
Can you help out Froggy?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/27/gul...s/index.html?h...

He's probably selling paper towels to the cleanup workers.

My 1490 arrived. It is not as complicated as a Garmin chartplotter!

:)

That was fast....... *up here it's three or four days if you're lucky.

*A few seasick bureaucrats who wanted to be seen as "doing something"..
"YAWN"

You should abandon that clapped out old sailboat and get a 36' lobsta'
boat like mine!

What is really comical is that the solution to getting rid of the
floating oil is so simple that only the govt stands in the way of
accomplishing it.
Take bales of hay, spread em out and spray them with oil to make em
hydrophobic, bale em again and then spread em over the spill. The hay
soaks up the oil and not the water and then you use unemployed
fishermen with their nets to gather up the hay and you press the oil
from it.
Why this will not be done:

1. It would require an environmental impact statement which is costly
and impossible to do in any reasonable time.
2. It would open BP to medical liability issues from the fishermen
who might claim they were harmed by fumes.
3. It is not an "approved" spilled oil recovery method.
4. No way the govt will allow oily hay to be spread even though it
will help a lot.

If this spill had been on private property, the cleanup would be
accomplished in a couple of weeks. When you involve the govt, it
simply will not happen.