On 5/3/2010 9:18 PM, Lobby Dosser wrote:
"Han" wrote in message
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"J. Clarke" wrote in
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Han wrote:
One good thing may be that in the armer Gulf more of the sticky and
toxic components will evaporate before getting into the ecosystems.
(I can hope, can't I?).

Nahh, when the volatiles evaporate, that's when the sticky stuff gets
_real_ sticky. And if you've lived in that area you'll have
experienced slowly sinking into a paved road if you stand still too
long.

As a child I spent time on the Dutch North Sea beaches. Dad carried a
bottle of turpentine or some such so we could was the tar of our feet
before going home. Those tarballs were probably from fuel oil from the
ships going by, but were annoying nevertheless. Never thought about them
as particularly toxic when they were tar balls. Really liquid oil, like
what floated on the Rhine were we swam, that was something else ...

The hotels in Santa Barbara have tar remover along with the shampoo and
soap.

However the oil in Santa Barbara is from a purely natural source.