The Oil Spill a Disaster? Maybe only in some people's minds.

I found this article fascinating for what it only suggested - a very politically incorrect conclusion that the oil spill is likely to be much ado about nothing. That certainly won't play well in Washington, where some are preparing the death knell of the American Oil Industry.

One thing about oil that needs to be recognized: it is a hydrocarbon - that is, it is a biological food for a ton of organisms. While it is true that sea birds, turtles and even air-breathing mammals like dolphins and porpoises may perish if they are engrossed in the slick, it is not a given that this is a disaster at all.

Remember that most of the hype is driven in the so-called main stream media by political, Leftwing animus against a nexus of issues like oil drilling itself, big corporations like Halliburton (associated with that big bugaboo Dick Cheney whom the Liberals hate) and BP, and environmentalism. They hate anything that spills into the environment because they come pretty close to worshipping the planet as some kind of god. Thus, their "god" is being polluted. Their evangelical fervor is religious in nature.

This oil spill is very convenient for those who want to stop oil exploration, drilling, production, and ultimately to stop the entire US economy if they can pull it off. Many are alleging that the oil spill is much larger than has been reported. There is only one problem with that, the pesky oil slick just doesn’t seem to be coming onshore, and it seems so elusive that many are beginning to worry that it won't show up in any significant way.

The author of the subject article reserved some of the best facts for the last: "This was a problem we ran into with Ixtoc, we never found the oil." Ixtoc was a Mexican oil rig in the western Gulf that spilled up to 420,000 barrels of oil a day for nine months in 1979 before being capped. That kind of makes this oil spill seem a bit puny in comparison. And we never heard about it.

Now that is an interesting prospect: they can't find the oil.

I suggest that there is much more to this subject than has been officially reported. After all, Obama cannot push the oil industry around if the environment - alleged to be so fragile that it will be destroyed if a single drop of oil spills - can easily handle anything like this. That is not likely to warrant the draconian measures this uber-Marxist has in store. He is just warming up with his charges of a "cozy relationship" between the regulators and the Oil industry which he proposes to strangle with a strait-jacket of new controls. The end of this will be the takeover and control of the industry. A much greater harm will come to our country as a result of Obama-ization of the oil industry than will ever come from some alleged environmental disaster.

My instinct tells me that there a lot of little bugs out there who are just waiting to sink their teeth into this rich feast of food floating somewhere in or on the ocean. In fact, they seem to be dealing with it pretty effectively to date. The article points out that a substantial portion of the oil will just evaporate harmlessly.

I don't buy the notion that this was an accident - see my other article on that subject - and I don't buy into the doom and gloom of the environmental wack-jobs. Just like humans are not the cause of any climate change that might be occurring, I also don't think we are capable of creating a natural disaster on the scale that the main stream Liberal media are alleging. Perhaps I will have to eat my words, but I don't think so.

The Daily Business Review reported last week that some South Florida law firms are gearing up for a whole raft of environmental lawsuits over this oil spill and its effects. You could see the cheesy grin on the face of one of the attorneys - just slavering over the prospect of milking millions - or billions - out of BP and Halliburton, spurred on by the Federal Government: a virtual feeding frenzy in prospect. Nothing would make me happier than to see all of that evaporate into nothingness, just like the oil. The only losers would be those ambulance-chasers hoping to cash in on their supposed bonanza.

I am sure that some oil globs will wash up on the shore, but a "natural disaster"? I suspect this will be a fizzle and an embarassment to the MSM and the Obama administration. Aside from being glad at not seeing a disaster of Biblical proportions, I would also be glad to see Obama and his socialists take a stick in the eye.