| The target keeps moving, the numbers keep changing, | | | | unprecedented" disaster, as he and other top |
| and none of them are going down! Every day the size | | | | administration officials defended their response and |
| of the oil spill gets bigger, the guesstimate of the | | | | pledged a "relentless" government effort to clean up |
| amount of oil leaking (barrels or gallons- pick one), and | | | | the slick. RELENTLESS is the operative word. Are you |
| the ecological damage increases. And, how long it will | | | | calmed now? |
| take to find a solution is put further and further out | | | | I don't think the residents along the Gulf are. |
| there. | | | | The president visited Louisiana to survey the damage |
| This will be much bigger and more costly than Exxon | | | | and hear from local officials, who told him the oil is |
| Valdez. Bank on it. | | | | about nine miles from the state's coast. Obama |
| Small businesses are going out of business. Fishing | | | | warned that the spill could "seriously damage" the local |
| vacations along the Gulf coast are being cancelled. | | | | economy and environment. "We're dealing with a |
| The estimates are that a billion pounds of seafood | | | | massive and potentially unprecedented environment |
| annually is at risk for loss from the Gulf oil catastrophe. | | | | disaster," Obama said. "It could extend for a long time. |
| At the very least will drive prices up; at the worst may | | | | It could jeopardize the livelihoods of thousands of |
| lead to some doing without. The 1,000s of miles of | | | | Americans who call this place home." |
| estuary and shoreline are the "nursery" for hundreds | | | | It's much bigger than that. |
| of species; some commercial some not. Over | | | | Could we see the mess get into the "gulf stream" and |
| 1,000,000 migratory birds are at risk at the moment, | | | | travel around the Keys and move up the Eastern |
| with more passing through. | | | | Seaboard? Some scientists say it's not a matter of IF, |
| Get the picture? | | | | but only WHEN that will happen. We've not been here |
| Of course our politicians are promising RESULTS! | | | | before so everyone is just throwing darts at the |
| President Obama warned Sunday that the vast oil spill | | | | numbers and hoping some small number sticks. |
| nearing the Gulf coastline is a "potentially | | | | |