Reply #59: I didn't see this from #27 in your post: [View All]

"Other nations have had to deal with oil spills. Mexico had the explosion and sinking of a deep water oil rig in 1979. They learned the hard way, just like the Saudis did almost 2 decades ago. Of course, it was a US engineer working for Saudi Arabia's Aramco who came up with the way to contain their massive oil spill 17 years ago, but no one is listening to him.

"No one's listening," says Nick Pozzi, who was an engineer with Saudi Aramco in the Middle East when he says an accident there in 1993 generated a spill far larger than anything the United States has ever seen.

A shrimp boat collects oil with booms in the waters of Chandeleur Sound, La., on May 5. An engineer who witnessed a crude spill in the Persian Gulf in 1993 says BP should use a fleet of empty supertankers to suck crude off the water's surface.

According to Pozzi, that mishap, kept under wraps for close to two decades and first reported by Esquire, dumped nearly 800 million gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf, which would make it more than 70 times the size of the Exxon Valdez spill.

But remarkably, by employing a fleet of empty supertankers to suck crude off the water's surface, Pozzi's team was not only able to clean up the spill, but also salvage 85 percent of the oil, he says.

http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/could-cleanup-fix...

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/gulf-oil-spill-su..."

Here is the guy who came up with the answers to a massive spill in the Persian Gulf in 1993 saying no one is listening. You can type READ all you want. I read what he said and, since he's solved a spill of this magnitude before and you haven't, I'm taking his word for it. I'm 55 and I've been READING for 51 years, thank you very much. I don't need you to type READ in all caps.