Oil in the keys already????

[Ryank]

The gulf oil spill is a huge mess, and BP should be held responsible for their failure to contain it. But don't lose heart, folks. Crude oil occurs naturally, and mother nature has ways of dealing with it. The Gulf is loaded with natural oil seeps. This spill has just dumped a lot more than usual over a much shorter period of time. So while the immediate situation is a gummy mess, I think in two years or less, you'll be hard pressed to find signs of lasting damage.
Dave

I agree, even if it does impact florida, time will cure all.
But as to those that feel there is a media hype, not sure what you mean? The oil slick is huge, As I have seen from the air, which is not shown on any media tv station I have viewed. Even what is visible from the air a majority of what is leaking out is not floating on the surface but hanging at different depths. The report that it might get caught in the middle of the gulf and not make it to Fl at all is well and good, but it is a report from the same group that is trying to protect tourism, and not start any panics. I understand their intentions but feel at the same I would rather know the entire truth of a situation. Its not that it could potentialy ruin fishing and diving for a few years, it is much larger then that. I would love to believe everything is awesome and honky dory and no oil is going to effect us. Yes we all know tar balls have floated up on beaches for the last 100 years and it is a normal ocurrence. We will have to wait and see, and hope...

[Spidercrab]

i still clamin wit no slimee clams yet

drill baby drill

sam

[DonV]

I've been down here for a week and a half, will be here for a week or so more, it's starting to affect the tourist coming here. Lots and lots of cancellations for fishing trips, hotel rooms, etc. from the news media's reporting. Just got back from KW and it's the BIG talk down there. A big mess.

[Greno]

Our tourism is dead here in Alabama. We actually had a nice looking girl on the beach in a bikini surrounded by guys wearing tyvek suits on the front page of the paper. This has been horrible for the hotels and restaurants as cancellations are all the way across the board and months away. This incident has really brought out the idiot sector, people getting sick from the smell in the air (its 100 miles away folks) so they can sue, everyone and their brother calling the line saying they lost money so they can sue, attorneys adds everywhere, horrible. Just like what happens after hurricanes. Makes you sick of humanity.

[NOLA Riverrat]

Ditto here in LA. The media is killing the tourist trade. There is still great fishing in certain areas but the media is causing those customers to cancel. This gushing oil well is going to play hell with our coast line and its marshes. We are really worried because we now have oil on land where there wasn't even a sheen so it looks as though the oil may be below the surface. No one really knows for sure what the future holds but we are praying.