I'd noticed a reference to "dispersants" in another article, and hoped it was a misprint.

After all, isn't "dispersing" the very negative outcome they're trying to counter?

But I figured there might be some counter-intuitive technical justification for it, so I decided to suppress still another smart-ass remark.

In the light of THIS article, I hereby put my smart-ass remark right back on the table!

So: DISPERSANT? WTF?

I understand that this toothpaste ain't going back in the tube, but is spraying and slathering it with anti-toothpaste chemicals really a remedy? Perhaps I'm overly influenced by growing up in a teevee culture that sternly asserted that using Brand X would only cause Waxy Buildup.

The Greek economy has been shocked. Next comes the doctrine. They, too, will need plane loads of dispersant.

Sarah sez 'You can't trust a foreign company' - like Halliburton??

With all these mutant causing chemicals will we have a new Godzilla?

MAN NOT SPIRITUAL -- JUST A BIG BRAIN MAMMAL

Part of the fake morality generated by the rich, to protect the excessive
wealth of the rich, is the illusion that man has a “spirit” and is gifted with
an infinite amount of untapped knowledge, intelligence and ability to
create something out of nothing.

The root cause of this Gulf oil spill actually, a full speed ahead with
abandon feeling that man is god-king over all the laws of nature and
dynamic forces govern our environment. But absolutely everything
was controlled by profit, all safety precautions bypassed if they in anyway
harmed profit and now that all has exploded in a convulsion, all Obama
and the rich want to talk about is how best to minimize any damage to
future profit.

Truth is, man is the absolute reverse of spiritual, just a soul like all
animals, just some organic matter together with a breath of life to
keep him among the living.

And so, one of the grand purposes of this worlds is to establish
physical man for what he is, just a big brain mammal so inflated
by pride that he pokes holes in things with the illusion that he can
handle an infinity of catastrophes that it will surely bring.

We need to define ecology as not just corporate-funded preservation of how things look on the outside.

The Gulf near the mouth of the Mississippi is a dead zone. Nitrates dumped into the river by thousands of farms, feedlots and septic tanks cause bacteria to eat all the oxygen in the ocean water, killing all fish. The oil slick reduces oxygen uptake into the water. In that respect the dispersant does something useful.

However, there's a problem with dumping dispersant where a shrimp boat was two weeks ago. We eat the shrimp. Then our cancer rate goes even higher.

Why isn't eliminating American human sacrifices to the god of profit more important than oil appearances? If the shrimp live but they're poisoned, what's the point?

Are they using a lot of antique DC-3's - original radial engines and all - to spread the dispersant?

DISASTER CAPITALISM IN THE MAKING? -- Another 9/11 by the rich?

Most fictional fantasy is the 9/11 conspiracy theory thrown at us by government, for as their conspiracy goes, the group that benefited the least did it, Al Qaeda which suffered the absolute most executed it in grand style all on their own.

Problem is, indicative of most government conspiracy theories, this one violates the rules and regulations that govern all theories of conspiracy. Namely those who got the richest from it, by all the probabilities know to man, they are to be declared most guilty until they can show proof positive that they be innocent.

Comes now this oil spill, and after it has destroyed all Gulf fishing and tourism for 100 years to come, Ok is it to drill, drill and drill some more.

Much glory now for our military as they are entering the mix in a big way, much glory for Obama and all the corporations that shall save the day.

Who knows what Wall Street, high finance and the corporate rich have planned for such a disaster, capitalism enrichment in its finest hour.

Here is the really maddening information
It looks like all that toxicity is unnecessary.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/05/gulf-dispersants/

Stupid Government!

Yeah, lets throw more crap into Mom, the world Ocean. There's already plastics of every type and particle size, nuclear waste, industrial waste, acidity from rising CO2, sewage (the least of our worries), all sorts of raw oil, garbage, oil-fed nutrient-drunk agricultural and urban runoff, and anything else we can't or don't want to deal with. Needles, Condoms, Shoes, Duckies, Oscar Meyer rings.

Happy Mother's Day.

And the Ocean Mother looks very small now. We are approaching 7 billion inadequately wired, but ingenious, primates.

Oh well, I'm sure OilCorp is profiting from Dispersal Production. Good for the Economy. Maybe more Cars will be sold. I can maybe build a huge house, with a Jacuzzi in every room....

Perhaps the next step would be to inject the oil with genetically modified oil eating bacteria? Which would then grow out of control, get into all the ocean's oil wells, eat up all the oil on the planet.......?
(Ice 9)

Probably in another generation, we'll have children whose parents ate fish from the Gulf being born with 3 ears.

A good interview this evening on the PBS News Hour about the effect of dispersants on the sea itself, microscopic organisms and the newborns of the food chain. The oceanographer was nervous and not as effective as she might have been, but she got it said. Making toxins invisible is like painting over chicken pox. They can't stop the geyser, but they can ruin the photo ops until the panic blows over. The video of that poor turtle they had to leave swimming in sweet crude is worth a thousand words. And no one is more in favor of invisibility than BP and its hirelings in Washington.

It's not words but pictures that change hearts. If you live down there along that beach keep a camera with you.

There is serious chatter that the only way to plug this monster is a nuclear device detonation, tactical or better.

BP= Beyond Petroleum. What's beyond petroleum? Death.

And the sad thing is with current US law BP might only have to pay 75 million dollars.

Dilution is the solution!

That's how our society treats all toxins, poisons, wastes. Human excrement flushed with huge amounts of clean water to dilute it and move it through a very complex and costly system of underground pipes often times releasing into waterways or sometimes making its way to expensive, and too often, insufficient, inefficient watertreatment plants. Or ... the excrement is flushed with huge amounts of clean water to a septic and leach field system ... diluting and allowing it to magically and slowly disperse through soils eventually finding its way to groundwater or other water sources. Simply get it all away from the source/sources. Dilute it as much as possible and everything will be just fine. Dilute it enough so it falls within acceptable limits. Dilute it enough so it suddenly becomes 'undetectable'.

Smokestacks and auto exhaust pipes spew toxins, poisons, wastes into the atmosphere and all the while accepted because it simply gets diluted within the atmosphere. Corpo-man has corpo-think again ... that it may be bad at the source but it ain't so bad once it's dispersed.

The same corpo-crazy-think is going on here with the dispersants. No thought to the impact/consequences of the dispersants alone, nevermind the compounded impact of the dispersants combined with the toxic crude oil. Yup ... disperse it all in the large volume of ocean water ergo rendered harmless. Harmless to whom, what? Can't see it now can you! To 'hell' with anything and everything else. Talk about a monumental 'Watergate'(no pun intended) twisted, swine ploy and cover-up!

Someone's comment here pointed out that man is simply a 'big brain mammal'. True, very true.

Not one given to believing in a 'heaven' or a 'hell', neither 'God' nor 'devil' ... lately though, I have a feeling corpo-man is 'devil' incarnate in desperate pursuit of creating 'hell' ... corpo-world.

I cannot come up with any reasonable explanation for the rampant sociopathic beliefs of, and psychopathic outcomes created by, corpo-man.

For all the 'knowledge' and 'technology' we have available, seems to me, have only contributed to the problems. There appears to be no true understanding and implications of the 'knowledge' and 'technology' available and/or utilized. 'Knowledge' and 'technology' are great, but only great, if the 'big picture' is considered with a large dose of 'humanity' in the decision making process.

The legal requirement of corporations to maximize profits(money, money, money) is the driving force behind what we see happening in corpo-land. Why can't the legal requirement of 'maximization of profits' be balanced by other requirements that protect against the ramifications of it?

Why can't laws be passed, or ammendments be made to existing laws, that can rein in the innate, built-in destructiveness of corpo-man with corpo-crazy-think in corpo-land?

Problematic also is the deference of regulatory action or inspection by existing regulatory agencies to industry(whatever industry, take your pick) to monitor itself, to inspect itself, to regulate itself. We already know this does not work out for anyone or anything other than corpo-man and its corpo-regime.