My heart is as heavy this morning as a tar ball--the oil slick in the Gulf is being pushed by prevailing winds onshore at Biloxi, and into the wetlands of Louisiana and Mississippi. The seafood industry and tourism will be ruined.

The Fishing and Seafood Commission that keeps a strict eye on harvest size of the shrimp industry has voided all regulations and told the shrimpers go out and get in all the shrimp they can before the oil reaches the Mississippi Bay. The shrimpers are pulling in bounteous quantities of shrimp, as the shrimp, like the oil, is being pushed toward shore by heavy winds.

Sigh. One more good thing spoiled by the hand of man. Even the casinos, overlooking the Gulf, will suffer, though I don't care about them, but the birds and the fish and oysters and shrimp and the delicate and vanishing wetlands that a lot of wildlife and seafood depend on will be disastrouly damaged.

Surely there's some kind of de-greaser detergent that could be sprayed on the oil slick to break it up--SOMETHING? Some Process? Some measures needed to have been done before now.
Human beings don't deserve this planet.

susil