NOAA says oil from Gulf Spill is quickly biodegrading.

Oil from BP Plc’s record spill in the Gulf of Mexico is biodegrading quickly, probably eliminating the risk that crude will go around Florida and hit the U.S. East Coast, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.

Oil has been dissipating through evaporation since BP stopped the flow from its Macondo well off the coast of Louisiana on July 15, NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco told reporters today on a conference call. Crude that’s dispersed into the sea is being gobbled up by bacteria, she said.

The company’s success in capping Macondo while continuing to drill a relief well to permanently plug the well eased fears that oil would get into the Loop Current, a river of warm water that joins the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic. The Loop Current has shifted seasonally to a point hundreds of miles away from the BP oil slick, NOAA Oceanographer Debbie Payton said.

“If all is good for us, by the time the Loop Current comes back intruding into the Gulf, there will be no more oil,” Payton said today in a telephone interview. “It makes what was previously a very real threat to the Florida Straits null and void.”

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http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-27/bp-oil-is-biodegrading-easing-threat-to-east-coast.html

.. we could be looking at HUGE dead zones of anoxic, toxic water.

Same amount of oil, same amount of bacteria, same amount of oxygen consumption however over a larger area.

Or do we not have enough money to influence what you say?