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08-08-2010, 12:49 PM
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Z51
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We don't even know if the video feed is showing the leaking well. It could be any well on that feed.
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08-08-2010, 02:37 PM
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Tampa Tuner
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Hey Chas !
I saw reports where there was 207 millions of gallons of crude oil has escaped after 100 days.
Then I hear BP say they have sucked up 27 millions of gallons of oil and water.
hardly any hos washed up.
its somewhere
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08-08-2010, 03:38 PM
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Z51
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Originally Posted by phils C5 vette
Hey Chas !
I saw reports where there was 207 millions of gallons of crude oil has escaped after 100 days.
Then I hear BP say they have sucked up 27 millions of gallons of oil and water.
hardly any hos washed up.
its somewhere
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It's on the bottom all over offshore in very deep water, 400ft plus.
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08-08-2010, 04:30 PM
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Internet Sanitation Engineer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Crawfordville, FL
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Name : Rich Zuchowski
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Originally Posted by 85vette
Honestly, I'm afraid to eat any seafood from the Gulf right now. Have any of you guys changed your eating habits because of this? If so, I think BP owes us for depriving us of having the liberty to enjoy one of Florida's natural resources.
Correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is the dispersants work like "Dawn" dishwashing liquid. They dissolve the oil so that it mixes with the water and is no longer visible....but it has to go somewhere. I would think the shellfish(oysters) would be especially susceptible to this, as they "filter" the water around them.
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Heck yeah. As soon as I heard about the oil gusher, I told Connie to buy up as much seafood as she could and store it in one of our freezers. So that is what we are eating now. Myway Seafood, where Connie works part time, is now getting their shrimp from Fernandina Beach on the east coast, even though the "authorities" are saying the seafood is fine in the Gulf.
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08-08-2010, 04:37 PM
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Z51
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Originally Posted by Rich Z
Heck yeah. As soon as I heard about the oil gusher, I told Connie to buy up as much seafood as she could and store it in one of our freezers. So that is what we are eating now. Myway Seafood, where Connie works part time, is now getting their shrimp from Fernandina Beach on the east coast, even though the "authorities" are saying the seafood is fine in the Gulf.
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The grouper and snapper 80 miles west of Clearwater FL are fine.
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08-08-2010, 04:46 PM
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Internet Sanitation Engineer
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Originally Posted by CHASZ51
The grouper and snapper 80 miles west of Clearwater FL are fine.
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How do you know? Have there been any independent and non-biased testing done for contaminants?
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08-08-2010, 04:49 PM
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Z51
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I'm still alive. They taste the same and look the same when i bring em up. I don't think the oil has had time to get down this far or if it ever will. Guess once we start getting strong cold fronts with 30knt northwest winds things could change.
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08-08-2010, 07:18 PM
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Haven't changed my seafood eating habits and I'm not plannin on it.
If I see hard evidence of contamination, then I'll change. Until then, no way
As far as where the shrimp and such come from, it simply doesn't make that much difference to me as a consumer.
I feel bad for the commercial fishermen and restaurants along the Gulf though.
The paranoia over tainted seafood has had an effect on thier business. You'd really think people would be more intelligent and less tin hat typical
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08-08-2010, 08:09 PM
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Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Shadow
Haven't changed my seafood eating habits and I'm not plannin on it.
If I see hard evidence of contamination, then I'll change. Until then, no way
As far as where the shrimp and such come from, it simply doesn't make that much difference to me as a consumer.
I feel bad for the commercial fishermen and restaurants along the Gulf though.
The paranoia over tainted seafood has had an effect on thier business. You'd really think people would be more intelligent and less tin hat typical
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I just don't want to BE hard evidence! Agent Orange comes to mind....
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08-08-2010, 09:12 PM
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Internet Sanitation Engineer
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Name : Rich Zuchowski
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Originally Posted by 85vette
I just don't want to BE hard evidence! Agent Orange comes to mind....
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Personally, I think it downright silly that people don't use their own gray matter and THINK about what is going on. IF there was, in fact, a major oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, and if a very small percentage of it was scraped from the surface or washed ashore, then WHERE is all of the rest of the oil? IF dispersants were used and IF they did the job, then they emulsified the oil and mixed it with the water within the Gulf of Mexico.
If all of the above is true, then anything living within the emulsified mixture quite likely is contaminated not only with the oil, but also with the chemicals that compose the dispersant. Since I am responsible for my own health and welfare and do not care to rely on the illogical statements made from entities not unduly noted for their honesty nor inclined to make statements contrary to the health and well being of their own financial position, I believe it behooves me to make a rationally sound decision concerning becoming part of a chain of events whereby those contaminants might percolate up the food chain into ME.
Quite frankly, it certainly won't KILL me to eat chicken for a while, awaiting results of those guinea pigs who choose this path for themselves.
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