Who Will Pay For the Oil Spill

We will, You and I, the taxpayer and the consumer pay this bill.. This spill and the cleanup will first be paid by British Petroleum company. They will see this as a business expense. Business expenses get added onto the price of the product. The price of fuel goes up. If the Government cleans it up then we tax payers will foot the bill the real cost will be negotiated down by BP as well it should. After all how would you like to pay the cost of anything the government does in it's hap hazard way. OH, excuse me I forgot You do pay, every day.
Now they are talking about fining BP Billions of dollars. Hey that's cool! We know who will pay that. Yep us again. We the tax payer, we the consumer are the only ones that can pay for it. The government can't, they don't have money. Governments only have tax payers and taxpayers have money. Companies don't have money they have products that they sell to us for money. When they raise prices of oil to pay the clean up cost they will have money. All the other oil companies are looking at those big clean up costs and fines and saying our risk has greatly increased, raise prices. We Americans who are the investors in these oil companies in stocks and IRA accounts are taking a hit in stock values. I heard a lady on C-span say she hoped BP went broke. Now there is a happy thought with a big part of the country without jobs. This is the reason I am proposing a cheap way that works for nothing while we all sleep at night. Dust rolling up oil as it comes to the surface and as it spreads out on the water in a deadly sheen. Dust rolling into grease balls that will not kill marsh grass and will not kill shrimp and will not oil birds. Sun baked tar balls are the answer. I am posting this every where I can on the Internet and sending it to Congressmen and the president and every group I can find that is environmentally active. Please send a link to a friend.

Mild oil spill damage may not last a long time.

Bear Creek east Of Baltimore Md. always had a layer of oil on it. It leaked from settling ponds of local industry. The creek was basically dead. A few crabs lived at the mouths of drainage ditches as did small fish but that was about all the life there was. All the beds of sea Grass had died. It was a dead little sea. In the late 1940's a major polluter found itself in a labor dispute and on strike and shut down. The creek came alive with amazing speed. In three weeks there was some fish in the creek. In six weeks there where a lot of fish as well as crabs. The had moved in from the bay and though not exactly thriving they were living in the creek. Local residents of the area were amazed to be catching rock-fish, croaker, white perch and spot. Taylor blues were breaking the water feeding on plentiful alewives. You could drag up a net with enough grass shrimp for a days fishing. Watermen who had them, put their shedding pots back in the water and sold soft crabs again. To the mixed feelings of all who were glad to be going back to work the fishing was not to last. As the manufacturing started up anew and the water was ever more streaked with oil, fish floated on their sides.And lined the banks.
I think this shows that a body of water can repair itself pretty quick when the pollution stops. This true of oil polution but some things are longer lasting. I think the Gulf will recover quickly as soon as the oil can be removed from the water. My solution of rolling particles on the water will not likely remove the heavy oil but it will take that long lasting sheen that lingers after a spill. This sheen damages the coast line for a long time after the heavier concentrations of oil are gone. There is hope for the Gulf coast!
Douglas Pollard