Looking around the Internet, I found this interesting map that brings the Gulf of Mexico oil spill into something we can grasp. The site is updated daily from a variety of sources, but will show the outline of the affected area in the Gulf. If you go this site, you can enter the place where you live and see how big the spill is in comparison to your neighborhood.

This is certainly a major spill going on here. I wouldn’t object too much to oil exploration, if there were a way to do it safely and without considerable environmental damage. This incident has proven that, at least for now, we do not have the necessary safeguards in place to avert disaster. So, for now, I will object to any drilling of oil off of our coasts, whether they be the Pacific Coast off of Cascadia, The Arctic Coast, or anywhere else. However, I am a reasonable person. If the necessary safety measures can be put in place, then we can drill for the oil we seem to need until better sources of energy are available.

In the meantime, here’s to hoping that inkblot on the map doesn’t get any bigger.
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