Some of the chemicals within petroleum cause cancer and that is a proved fact.. It is also a fact that sea life that was caught after the oil spill within the Gulf of Mexico and subsequently tested contains petroleum chemicals. All of that black tar will never be removed from the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico. Therefore, and for many years to come, it is certainly not wise to eat any kind of sea life that is caught within the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
The sea life that survives this major disaster will certainly not be safe for Human consumption. So too, every chemical added to the Gulf waters to break up the floating oil serves only to add to the pollution problem.
Tens of thousands of people depend upon the sea life caught from within the waters of the Gulf of Mexico as their primary means of employment. You better believe that being employed as fishermen is probably gone forever for a large percentage of those people. Would you be willing to wait 20 of more years before you could again provide safe seafood to the consumer?
You can also believe that British Petroleum will not employ clean-up workers for 20 or more years, in order to remove that tar from the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico. When the oil slick is gone from the surface so will all of those clean-up jobs be gone. The Gulf States will have to employ workers to clean the beaches and then have to sue British Petroleum for those incurred costs. Good luck with that because British Petroleum will most likely go out of business before that day comes to the executives of that corporation.
They lied to us right from the very beginning of the leak disaster, in that they claimed that only 5,000 barrels of oil leaked each day. The fact of the matter is that 50,000 or more barrels of oil leaked into the Gulf of Mexico each day since the leak began. That's about 2,200,000 gallons of sludge and cancer causing chemicals each day. They wanted to save the well head and that is why they did not simply drop about thirty tons of pig iron onto the hole in order to stop the leak. After so doing they could have also put another ten tons of waterproof concrete on and around the iron to truly seal the deal.
The top management of British Petroleum lives within Great Britain and you better believe that they could care less if the Gulf of Mexico and the life that lives within it is no longer safe and clean for "We People of the United States of America." On the other hand, if we put 220,000,000 gallons of sludge and cancer causing chemicals around the British Isles they would have declared war against us. Their primary goal is to make as much money as they can and from whoever is willing to pay the price for the resulting fossil fuels that they sell to the public.
The sale of the crown jewels would not cover the cost of the damage caused by the management of British Petroleum. As a matter of fact, the property owned by the Royal Family within the United States of America should be taken away and sold, in order to pay for some of the clean-up costs. Then again, that money could provide an income for the tens of thousands of people who lost their businesses and/or primary means of employment due to the deadly pollution that is now within the Gulf of Mexico.
Then again, the EPA is testing the sea life that is caught after that disaster and it still is not clear as to weather that food will not cause cancer in people who do eat a whole lot of sea food. Such chemicals remain in the body for a prolonged period of time. Black tar continues to wash up upon the beaches, and within that tar are chemicals that can end your life.