Reply #23: It can't be "cleaned up".. It settles and it sticks to everything

[SoCalDem]

and it seeps into the sand & marsh mud. Once a "spill" happens, you can;t really clean it up.. The press loves to show the gory aftermath of a spill and the politicians get all lathered up and boisterous about it, but there is really nothing that can be done. It's a gooey mess, and then nature slowly goes to work.. Animals die, people get sick from it, and the habitat is changed (possibly forever), .

Oil is a toxin.

It's like stumbling across a corpse, and then railing about how slow the paramedics were in getting there, and how they did not work hard enough to resuscitate the dead person..