Tar balls feared to be sign of what's to come

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1. Kathleen Fincher
   

   Please keep re enforcing that BP is not doing enough. I don't care how much they have captured. Cap it not capture it !!! Force them to use the products that you(CNN) have featured on TV. Spill it, freeze it, remove it. Any thing is worth a try. What is the objection to success? BP, obviously does not have the proper technology to deal with this disaster. They have had 47 days to work on this with little to poor results. August is not acceptable!!!!! Fat Allen needs to be put out to pasture. He is in bed with BP. Shame on him !!!
   Stop the dispersant, It is causing even more catastrophe results. It is banned from all over the world including England. Better yet,
   let BP officials and Fat Allen drink it while they are out dining together..........

   Sincerely Concerned,
   Kathleen Fincher

   June 6, 2010 at 7:23 am |
2. Joan
   

   We want the military involved in protecting the coastline of Louisiana NOW.
   Where are the people with solutions in this country? Has everyone been paid off? Why weren’t they required to drill relief wells LIKE THEY DO IN OTHER COUNTRIES? We want answers; we want the truth to come out...and we want it yesterday.

   If Louisiana is ruined, no amount of money from these companies will ever be enough.

   June 5, 2010 at 9:52 am |
3. Joan
   

   Its time for the media to start giving airtime to solutions to the oil spill contamination, instead of spending so much time horrifying us; we get it; we are horrified.
   You should also give more airtime to why this happened; Why our government allowed BP to drill this well without the "relief wells" which are standard operating proceedure in other countries; (countries where people still have rights, and where big business hasn't taken over).

   Start educating people.

   June 5, 2010 at 9:45 am |
4. Steve Cerwin
   

   Crude oil is valuable. It sells for $78/barrel. A person could make some real money with a portable shop vacuum cleaner along the contaminated coastline. BP May be interested in paying enterprising individuals even more per barrel since it would help with the cleanup. Recovering the spilled oil makes more sense than throwing it away.

   June 5, 2010 at 9:26 am |
5. Paige Sass
   

   I live on one of those "barrier islands" off the coast of Alabama, Dauphin Island. We are a real community, with churches (4), a school with 90 students, homes for full time residents as well as vacationers. We also house an FDA research lab, an excellent bird sanctuary, and the Sea Lab which has a fabulous estuarium. Of course, we also have a few restaurants, a bank, etc., so we are home to many people. I feel that coverage of the oil spill has focused on Louisiana and Florida – both important parts of the Gulf – but there are two states in between, Mississippi and Alabama, please don't forget us..

   Dauphin Island has been designated one of the "Birdiest Coastal Communities in the United States." Who know what this is going to do to those birds that have come through here each year during their migrations South and North for years. I also fear the the Estuarium may become a museum of what was rather than a model of our ecosystem as it exists today.

   June 5, 2010 at 8:54 am |
6. Smith in Oregon
   

   CNN seems to be sending cross signals here. On MSNBC Rachel Maddow spent a afternoon on the beaches and out in the Maaarsh, and it didn't take long for her and her crew to be overcome by the toxic poisons boiling off the abundant heavy crude Oil swirling in the water.

   Meanwhile Anderson Cooper on CNN is lauding people to come to Louisiana's coast line, breathe in the crude Oil fumes, eat the seafood that 'hopefully' is not heavily contaminated with carcinogenic poisons from the crude Oil.

   Seems like two anchors seeing the same devastation and totally different words coming out of their mouths. CNN seems to be sending cross signals here.

   Crude Oil is a poison and a neuro-toxin, it's not friendly slime, it's not some chia-pet you water and grow. If you play with it, eat it, drink it or breathe it, you will get sick. How sick depends solely on the amount of crude Oil you are exposed to.

   June 5, 2010 at 12:41 am |
7. Hempy
   

   Wind Solar and Bio-Fuel is they way to go there is enough resources laying around the surface with out robbing Earth of her fossil fuels and minerials to live a happy peaceful life for hundreds of years

   June 4, 2010 at 12:51 pm |
8. Hempy
   

   You all act surprised that oil is washing up on shore in flordia I told you all a month ago it would and it will also be washing up on cuba's coast and the key's .The dispersments they are useing will cause tar BLOOBS to wash up on the shores for many decades thank god I dont plan to have children to bring up in this forsaken world that GREED has ruined .......If america would decrimanlize cannabis we could grow our oil and replunish the oxygen at the same time repairing the co2 levels ......but thats to easy so they risk killing every thing in the gulf and oceans just for their human needs GET REAL live at peace with mother earth and stop stealing her fossil fuels when we can grow oil ....and whats going to happen in this HUGE void that is being created when they pump oil out the back fill the void with drilling mud now that this oil has created a void 20,000 feet below the gulf of mexico is the bottom going to fall into a sink hole in the next 100 years ?

   June 4, 2010 at 12:42 pm |