What the Gulf oil spill means for your dinner

Blame Congress for all there fake issues and in fighting, all these so called inviromental accidents are really sabotage of the American way of life. What has Congress done for the people of the United States lately ? And by lately I mean the last 40 years. You people need to wake up and stand together and dont let Congress make you afraid of your nieghbors with all this fear mongering, So whats the next big world killing stunt is Congress going to pull?

Yeah, thank the enviro nutjobs for having to drill off-shore, $4 a gal gas, no new refineries for 30+ yrs, any sane solution for energy off the table.

BP knew there was a problem and they ignored it,men died,businesses lost money,and the oceans ecosystem in that area was harmed.You can not say it was an accident because they tried to hide the problem with chemicals that sink the the oil.

I agree if your going to poke holes in the earth for oil, there should have been an emergency plan in place. These people make thousands of dollars a month in salaries and they are that stupid. they should pay out of their own money for their srew up, not the consumers.

They'll tell you anything to ensure that you continue to buy the seafood, so that they can make profits. WAKE UP!

Did you know that all that so called "SAFE" fish is going into your pet food??? I read that Hills Science Diet and Smart Balance butter spread is using that fish! I'm now making my own pet food!!

What happened to the rig that Kevin Costner help invent to separate the oil from the water and clean it up?

Both parties are on the take from the petroleum industry and so untill we finally see the light which won't happen till we are all those big ol nasty nuclear bombs fall from the sky by then it will be too late to vote for a third party and so it really won't matter because we will all be dead!

If we had voted democratic, the oil well would have not exploded. Isn't that like a democrat to write something like that. Before it was always Bush's fault. Gasoline over $4 a gallon and no democrat wants to blame President Goofy. Do even the dumbest of democrats think the campaign contributions for President Goofy only come from mom's and dad's sending in $2 each... Look at the billions spent on the fake energy company by President Goofy, why btw was friends with the Pres. Yes, democrats are saving the environment by spending all our green on useless projects in the name of the people. How easy it is to fool a liberal in the name of going green. Now we have a $1000,000 electric car that can travel 100 miles between an 8 hour charge. How is that working for the poor people. Only looks good on TV and since the Chev Volt is going under because they are aren't worth buying. Would hate to be as dumb as many democrats. I'm a moderate btw, before you start assuming with your weak mind.

40% of Killer whales died, whoa! 30,000 holes! Do they have plugs for these holes after they are done drilling?

I've always been against off shore drilling. Digging holes surrounded by water just doesnt make sense to me. Was just an accident waiting to happen. They should have had some sort of plan for a disaster but all of the red flags that lead to the accident should have been taken care of BEFORE anything even went wrong.
Have we learned anything from this? Trade in your gas guzzlers and get a more fuel efficient car or WALK so we don't need to rely so heavily on the Govt to supply us with oil.

I love seafood to death do us part........

I love how very hate filled some of the comments are here under this article....A lot of good hard working fisherman and their families have lost literally everything and have no hope of ever getting anything back. And only have the bleak unrewarding future of McDonald's Jobs ahead of them which we all know has no reward at the end of them......some fisherman have even gone as far as to commit suicide or blow their boats up with dynamite just offshore. As it is the only recourse they had to deny the Banks a forclosure. Most are Catholic so suicide isn't an option and have been handed down undeserved near or life sentances for the crimes of destroying their boats. When it should only be a minor felony with time off for good behavior in a country club jail.

Anyway, for those who speak so badly of these poor undeserved victim's as leaches, I can only hope there is a particularly hot place in pergatory for you if you never dummy up!

Everything angers me about oil companies.. too much money and too much power.. funny how they go together. The are a political player on every issue they choose to be. They destroyed the Gulf. I still will not fill up at a BP pump. Don't forget to boycott BP! They haven't done enough to rectify the situation.

Always vote Democratic. The Democratic liberals (liberal developed from liberty) aren't the perfect party, but they do make way more of an effort in protecting the environment. Remember Palin saying, "Drill baby drill"? That sums it up.

What angers me is a solution was available to BP which could have removed the oil (hydrocarbons) entirely rather than add toxic dispersants on top of the toxic hydrocarbons, and they failed to take advantage of it. I tried for a year to sell BP microbes that consume the hydrocarbons and also a non-toxic food-grade polymer that bonds at a molecular level with hydrocarbons making them inert and once bonded it floats and could easily be removed. Once removed it could be burned as a clean energy source in cogen plants and once burned only produced 1% of the ash of burning coal. But BP would have been fined for all petroleum that was collected. By breaking up the hydrocarbons with dispersants it could not be measured, dropped to the bottom and could not be seen. Also they had large amounts of the dispersants on hand which was a financial liability. BP was fined large sums of money to pay companies who were impacted by the spill. BP as a company was impacted by the spill and submitted claims against their own fines, and collected. After a year I closed my business. THAT is what makes me mad. Shirley Collins, previous owner Ariel Environmental.

it seems like the information is from around a month after the spill and is over a year old, but the line;
" CS: I flew over the spill last week and it covers the horizon as far as I could see. I had no idea how big it would be-just thousands of miles of ocean covered in oil. "
when it's been two years in mid April since the spill, how long has it been since we heard about the remains and changes from the spill?
I assume the oils didn't decompose into , something non existent, but where did all that oil and dish washing detergent go? there isn't a drain out there we pulled, sending it down the river.
What is left of the oil spill out there and the residue of the oil and detergent / dispersal mix used to put it in the water and more out of site

Don't think that oil spills don't sicken sea life, or us: They do. What angers me is the irresponsibility and gross negligence of the whole drilling matter, and the harm done to animals. We can help ourselves, they can't.
But we are suffering too.

The oil spill was tragic........ what about Fukishima? What's that doing to the seafood industry?

What annoys me most is the fact that these Global oil companies find people to lie on camera ,saying all is well and that BP has paid huge sums of money for their recovery. And now they are recouping their then losses by jacking up the price at the pumps. For them its a win win by having and owning the media, politicians and poor dumb souls believing the spill is all cleaned up.That oil has travel many miles and can be seen even in the Caribbean waters from airplanes, long yellow/orange lines in the wake below.Halliburton and BP have hyped some into believing a falsehood that is not going away for many years. Greed, greed and more greed are the bottom lines here, caring about their fellow man is not on their agenda. Whereas profit is primary,secondary and all that matters.