for the last three months all i ve heard is this is the worst environmental catastrophe in the history of the country. the question i have is the question that has loomed for all these weeks and months now. the gulf of mexico is pretty deep. and that oil sinks. and it goes out there and then we were always wondering how many years or months certainly would it be coming back to haunt us over its own time span. we wouldn t get all the damage right away. it would come in depending on storm conditions and currents. how do you know it s not out there in bulk just as bad as we thought it was perhaps 4 million barrels of it still out there? well, we don t know. there s a lot we don t know. that s certainly true. it s kind of nice to hear the kind of alarmists finally admitting we don t know how bad this is going to be. in spills in the past, there have been some long-term impacts. the exxon valdez, the fisheries haven t entirely recovered. birds have had reproductive problems. certainly
for the last three months all i ve heard is this is the worst environmental disaster in the history of the country. the question i have is the question that has loomed for weeks and months now. the gulf of mexico is pretty deep. and that oil sinks. and it goes out there. we re always wondering how many years or months certainly would it be coming back to haunt us over its own time span? we wouldn t get all the damage right away. it would come in depending on storm conditions and currents. how do you know it s not out there in bulk as bad as we thought it was? perhaps four million barrels sta still out there? there s a lot we don t know. it s nice to hear the alarmists admitting we don t know how bad this is going to be. in oil spills in the past there have been some long-term impacts. exxon veldez the fisheries v d haven t entirely recovered.
and that oil sinks. and itç goes out there and the we were always wondering how many years or months certainly would it be coming back to haunt us over its own time span. we wouldn t get all the damage right away. it would come in depending on storm conditions and currents. how do you know it s not out there in bulk just as bad as we thought it was perhaps 4 million barrels of it still out there? well, we don t know. there s a lot we don t know. that s certainly true. it s kind of nice to hear the kind of alarmists finally admitting we don t know how bad this is going to be. in spills in the past, there have been some long-term impacts. the exxon valdez, the fisheries haven t entirely recovered. birds have had reproductive problems. certainly not the environmental catastrophe we ve been talking about. and this is lighter oil, it s a much warmer gulf. and the mississippi river water kept a lot of that oil away from the shore. we heard that this was going to be a catastrophe for th
spill of this magnitude. that s from an engineering standpoint. so at that point, we re talking about no seafood, no we got crab, we got shrimp. we are 70% of the nation s seafood crop comes from the gulf of mexico. mr. denmark, people who are looking around the country and they are watching this and they may not realize the shrimp they have in some instances, they have crawfish or catfish or oysters or whatever, which i eat weekly, that s all going to be affected. you are you probably won t be able to do any type of oyster netting or anything like that if that oil sinks to the bottom and it gets on where those oyster beds are and you won t be able to do any shrimping. the prices will go up. and you won t make any money. at least for a year. and it could be years to come. we re probably looking at a five-year window if it turns out as bad as they re predicting on another good seafood crop. on oysters, we may be looking at
oil in a barrel of oil. you multiply that, you have 42 thousand gallons of oil leaking and noaa believes that number could be 5,000 barrels and there s another place actually leaking. this could be much more significant of a leak than they first thought. that s why they re trying to coral this oil and trying to burn it off. they re also using disbursements, a high-tech 409 that they spray on the oil and the oil mixes with water and then eventually that oil sinks to the bottom of the ocean and is consumed by marine life. there are little organisms that will eat that oil. that s good. you just don t want it on the top where the birds and wildlife and water foul fowl will get all of that. we know the pictures of the exxon valdese, the difference the exxon valdese was on shore when it broke up. it got on-shore real fast. when we have oil in the water, 5, 6, 7 days, that initial oil