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None reported in Sanibel or Tampa/St. Pete... But 20 make it to a National Park beach in Key West?
And none are at Smathers Beach?
Pardon my skepticism...
I'm waaaay too prone to seeing people trying to exploit a crisis to take this at face value.
Are you sure they didn't come from the bilge one of the 20 or so cruise ships that dock in KW every week?
Or perhaps one of the USCG Cutters docked around the corner?
When I was a kid living up in Marathon we always had tar on our feet after going to Cocoa Plum Beach with the dogs... And there were no Gulf oil spills of any magnitude '72-'80.
All those tar balls came from tankers pumping their bilges as they ran up and down the coast...
I know... They are testing the tar balls...
<conspiracytheory>Or... Perhaps some eco-commando picking up a bucket of tar blobs off the beach in Louisiana or Texas and driving them to Key West in order to further the Green Agenda? </conspiracytheory>
Unpossible. That would never happen...
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I have to say your post was a lot less skeptical than Brit Hume's recent "Where's the oil, I don't see any oil." comment.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I was telling my crew today! We used to get tar all over our feet from the beaches in Hollywood & Ft Lauderdale back in the 80s.
ReplyDeleteIf it's not on Pensacola's beaches
http://www.visitpensacola.com/content/oil-spill-update
how did it make it to KW?? Hmmmm....
They are not from the Deepwater Horizon...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/19/scientists-watching-oil-spill-headed/?test=latestnews
KEY WEST, Fla. -- The Coast Guard says the tar balls found off Key West aren't linked to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
A report released Wednesday says tests show the tar balls don't match the type of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill. The source of the tar balls isn't known. Tar balls can occur naturally or come from other sources such as ships.
Annnnd, you were right.
ReplyDeleteTested, & NOT from the spill.
Makes one wonder, it does...