BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

Since April the twentieth up to this day, there has been a constant oil leak on the Gulf of Mexico. It was caused by a wellhead blowout and it also took a ship by putting it on fire, there were fifteen+ deaths caused by the fire and enormous environmental damage. The oil leak is now damaging unmeasurable amounts of wildlife. It is foreseen that the leak will damage the fishing industries and tourism on the Gulf as well as the environmental damage. The responsible for this disaster is BP, or british petroleum, and will pay the relatively little amount of 7.5 billion dollars. The company won't really suffer from this loss since they make a lot more than that in revenue. Also, BP will remain having its huge income level, know why?, we as the greatly advanced human race haven't figured out what other fuel to use besides petroleum.

The fact that injustices like this happen are extremely unfair for the affected, all the wildlife, birds and fish. The fact of the matter is that to add insult to the injury, BP had planned to cap the leak, however are already foreseeing failure, even before doing it. Many ideas have arose and yet BP has made an excuse to avoid those ideas. Some good ideas that aren't being used in all the affected areas are the use of hay, dishwasher, hair and a brilliant idea of an all naturally made absorbent of oil that repels water, invented by a colombian inventor. I personally think that the idea of the all natural absorbent and dishwasher are going to work, and even better, they're cheap. This disaster has been one of the worst in history and the bad thing is that it is still leaking. Maybe now, that we're seeing how much harm can be done with the use of petroleum, we will concentrate at figuring out alternatives to petroleum. Many advances in the search of an alternative have been made, the use of solar energy, gas created from cane, etc. In conclusion, this disaster is forcing us to find a environmental-friendly fuel to prevent atrocities like this to ever happen again.

Edit 06/06/10: Cap has been places and it is reportedly picking up 6,000 gallons a day, it is expected for the cap to start picking up 10,000 + gallons on the next week.

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