Actually I imagine with several of those oil platforms that disappeared during Hurricane Ike, some oil was spilled into the Gulf.
You imagine... or there was a spill? Which is it? No one will deny that some rigs were damaged, but where is ecological disaster you have been predicting?
Do you mean how many oil spills did we have where we could measure it in terms of dead wildlife strewn on the beaches, like the Valdeze affair?
Not sure.
Your argument for why we should not drill offshore in California is because a tanker crashed in to a reef in calm weather in Alaska? No offense, but that is a lame argument.
Did they ever find those half-dozen platforms that Ike removed from the Gulf surface? Are they laying at the bottom of the sea oozing their filth in areas we cannot monitor.
Yes let us prevent drilling offshore because a rig might be leaking somewhere... nevermind that there is no evidence of this. The question here is not whether rig was damaged, it is whether or not it caused an ecological disaster. It did not.
I also say that they can monitor if there is a leak, as they know where these locations are, and the actual area that is pumped can be shut off well below the surface. Therefore, should platform explode, the oil can still be shut off.
Poor shrimp fishers. I hear they're taking quite a blow between global warming floods eutrophying the Delta inlets and then the increase of massive hurricanes...