Exxon: not a problem.

To a Freeper, there is no such thing as pollution, or any other environmental problem! Witness the discussion of the Exxon oil spill. As it turns out, not a problem!

Old Professer wishes we'd just ignored the problem, cause then it woulda gone away:

Well after the botched early attempts at ‘cleanup’ by the local do-gooders and
assorted volunteers from all about; a review was done by some outside biologists
of the beaches and they determined that far greater damage was done by the steam
cleaning operations than by the spilled oil.

The birds suffered the most killoff I suppose but in the scheme of things nature did the majority of the work as the tidal and storm action turned the slick into tar balls much as it does with natural seeps and those that wash ashore get covered with dirt and fall back to the sea.

OldNavyVet remembers the 1950s, and assumes they are about the same as a supertanker.

I went to grade school in Ocean View, Virginia (very near the US Naval base at
Norfolk) from 1941 till 1946, while German submarines were sinking numerous
tankers forming in convoys off Virginia Beach, about thirty miles from Ocean
View.

Oil from those torpedod tankers made its way into Chesapeake Bay and onto the beach at Ocean View.

Oil is hydrocarbon made from organic life forms, and — over a short period of time, perhaps a year — nature took care of that spilled oil. Throughout WW-II, swimmers at Ocean View beach were generally bothered more by jellyfish than oil.

See, oil is a hydrocarbon, so there's no problem! Nature can totally handle it. Which is why I drink jet fuel all the time - it's a hydrocarbon, so my body can totaly handle it.

kellyrae wishes everyone would just chill.

I went on an Alaskan cruise about 5 years ago and we stopped in Valdez for
a half a day. It was the most beautiful spot on our cruise. There was absolutely
no sign of any environmental disaster.

We don’t want to let oil tankers leak all over the place, but one spill, even a big spill, isn’t the end of the world.

There is zero perspective in the environmental wacko brain.

See, if it's pretty, it can't bedamaged! Besides, who cares about a little environmental boo-boo, eh? What could possibly go wrong with that line of thinking?

EyeGuy fnishes us off with his simple logic:

“In His wisdom God made the earth able to clean up our mistakes...”
My major argument against the socialist’s Climate Change scam.

Ah yes, god helps those who sit back and aren't a steward of nature. Sounds like what Jesus would say.