A rash of dead dolphins has broken out across the Gulf following the oil spill

With all due respect you sound like a bit of an elitist, perhaps you need to visit simple hard working folks who make their living like the Cajun shrimper 'coon-ass' Eric who relates this tragic tale. As for oil in practically everything we use, I'm quite sure you're not exempt. From your other comments below I also see you are a bit of a defeatist. While I understand completely the rage you express, it is only a suggestion, but perhaps your rage would be better served directed at leaders enabling tragedies like the gulf holocaust, while those from all walks of life become allies in fighting the beast.

it is not our choice of what we use it is the makers the leaders choice. our cars dont run on that stuff because they are in bed with oil and oil wants to take over the world. one land at a time.

Flex fuel vehicles are available on about 3/4 of all American cars. Flex fuel costs the same as conventional gasoline only models in most cases.

Flex fuel vehicles can run on gasoline or E85(85% ethanol)-----or any mixture of the two in between.

A flex fuel vehicle running on E85 produces 70% less smog and pollution forming emissions that the same vehicle using gasoline, and uses only 15% petroleum. Out of an 8 gallon tankful----only 1 gallon is gasoline.

You might want to check my twitter pages, as they are updated daily with the newest BP news... I posted the links above.

The gulf is teeming with marine life. Many local economies support themselves entirely on the fishing industry in the gulf.

And all of that marine life has been poisoned.

Couldn't have said it better! Thanks, bulletyme!

with tears in my eyes....thank you for this drop of hope.

My absolute pleasure.

In all seriousness, I've watched this at least 20 times, I enjoy showing it to others, and at the end, we all have tears streaming down our faces. Thank you for sharing this here ~

Didn't you know BP wouldn't allow their cleanup workers to wear respirators? True. So I would imagine the dolphins had no better luck ;0)

And thank you, again and again, for YOUR activism. I do believe that I not so long ago contacted you to let you know about "BP Catastrophe" and, lo and behold, you actually jumped on board, and I'm so, so grateful!

I couldn't agree more, dusty_king!

And the sadness continues, knowing that some sentient beings will somehow survive, only they've been permanently, hideously damaged... and if they actually birth offspring, we haven't any idea what horrors will show up in their precious babies.

This is and always shall be UNFORGIVABLE.

And so are those in our government who colluded with BP to allow and even help this to happen. It was the EPA that lied and said Corexit is not known to be toxic, allowing it's unmitigated use, and it was the Coast Guard that sprayed Corexit on our waters and beaches and citizens.

One human death has already occurred from Corexit being sprayed near shore, her name is Lisa Nelson. It is for her, for the 100s of thousands who are sick and for the rest of the life forms that have fallen victim to this travesty that we fight.

About Lisa ~ a tribute by Jerry Cope, who also became sick from Corexit poisoning... http://jerrycope.com/?p=83

Heartbreaking about Lisa Nelson, and her name deserves to be shared with the rest of us.

Heartbreaking about every single living being, all of whom have been negatively affected by this disgusting greed.

I have no idea why your post was voted down 9 points. You are so right. The BP Gulf Holocaust was mishandled in every way imaginable by the administration. The President of the United States had been granted special powers after the Valdez Oil Spill Disaster to force BP to deploy ALL the resources at their disposal to come to the Gulf and vacuum up much of the spill, if he had chosen to use them. The use of the Coast Guard to prevent volunteers and the press access to the disaster area and clean up was a travesty for the environment, free press and a coup for BP. The choice of Feinberg to handle the $20B claims fund has been a nightmare for claimants and another victory for BP. And the grand insult is just as you stated - the EPA claim that 75% of the oil has been recovered, and no mention of the dolphins washing ashore daily... whoever in the hell has been voting your post down is completely out of it. I'll vote you up one point!

me too. And one for you too.

And to keep us in the loop, so we DON'T forget, please feel free to contribute anything you find that relates -- even in the slightest -- to the BP Catastrophe (IN "BP Catastrophe"). Hopefully more and more of us will make contributions and then, on top of that, start SHARING the news, if only to serve as a bloody reminder as to the greed of the money-makers.

Re: Katrina/NO

...and how so much was blamed on Mother Nature when it was the Corps of Engineers' levees that gave way! They knew they were not constructed correctly when they were built! This another fact has been lost - buried. How many have been buried across the Nation? It is hidden in local news.

That's a very good idea, EV.

That's correct, GrannyLib. I have seen shows about Katrina on HBO and PBS and at least those shows know that the levee's were good for shit. I believe the Corps of Engineers and the Bush administration knew since 2001 that those levees needed to be reconstructed but nobody cared. I believe that Katrina was a man made disaster.

As far as the Corps of Engineers and the Bush administration go, there's only so much blame that can be placed in their laps. The Corps fucked up when they built the levees, and Bush fucked up after the storm hit(he was more concerned about his bullshit war in Iraq to actually give a damn about us). Most of the blame for the levees breaking needs to be laid on the local officials whose job it was to perform the yearly inspection on the levees. Do you know what they did during these so-called "inspections"? They organized the whole thing around a huge luncheon at a nice local restaurant and they ate and drank to their heart's content. In all, they would spend MAYBE 20 mins actually out on the levees. It was a big party to them, courtesy of us local taxpayers. I was born and raised in New Orleans and I can tell you that the corruption/negligence among the local government is horrible. Everyone just wants to pass the buck to someone else. No storm had ever tested the levees like Katrina did, besides Betsy in the 60's, so these people never took the inspections seriously. We all knew a storm like Katrina would hit New Orleans some day. The city is basically a giant bowl and everyone knew it would be bad when the "the big one" finally hit. Perhaps if those morons had actually done the job they were paid to do, we might have recognized the dangers in our grossly inadequate levee system. In the end, the whole city paid the price for their negligence.

Thank you very much for your insight, mr_tibbles. You would know. I like it when someone who is actually from New Orleans comes and comments so all of us can understand what really went on. Shame on these local officials! Drinking and eating on the taxpayers dime instead of doing their job! It's always the people that pay the price for gross negligence like this.

No need for thanks, but also thank you for caring!

Yes, I must agree with you about those who don't give up caring. And when I set up the "BP Catastrophe" topic, it was solely to ensure that WE NEVER FORGET!

Thanks for caring, csmonut!