Remember the BP-PLC oil spill (4.4 million barrels plus 200,000 tons of methane) in 2010? Turns out that nature has a self-cleaning mechanism for exposure to toxic human beings. (Or is that exposure to toxic fossilized oil and gas?)
Lest you doubt nature's motherly care, as various researchers did when a federally-funded study appeared in the journal "Science", Dr. Valentine has the scoop on the poop, so to speak. He and his colleagues had determined "the ocean harbors organisms that can handle a certain amount" of gas and oil pollution.
This fact, along with the peculiar washing-machine currents of the Gulf of Mexico, means that offshore drilling will not be hung out to dry after all. Monday's report published by the National Academy of Sciences found little evidence of the man-made disaster.
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Just like a Valentines Day gift that is meant to make up for all the stupid stuff that men do throughout the year, you can start planning that second honeymoon for the beaches of the Gulf. So accept this as my early Valentine; and pass it on to all those who have your back (teria) when you spill your guts and find out that you're all wet.
