Black Heart

The BP Oil Spill in the Gulf Coast is sickening! It absolutely tears me apart to see what the oil has done to the water and marine life. I have literally cried watching the news coverage of this horrible man made disaster. It breaks my heart to see the birds and wildlife all black and covered in oil and tar. Countless birds, turtles, dolphins, porpoises, fish, and other marine life have perished due to BP's greed and recklessness.

Many people along the coast who depend on the ocean for their jobs have lost their sole income. The states that are on the Gulf Coast and have been affected by the oil spill (if you can even call over 8,000 barrels of oil going into the Gulf a day a "spill") are among the poorest states in the nation. Poor Louisiana is still trying to recover from Hurricane Katrina 5 years ago!

And just think, all this could have been avoided if BP would have just kept the maintenance on the rig up to code. Let's not forget 11 BP employees died in that rig explosion. What kind of explanation does BP have to offer them and their families??!

The Gulf and its ecosystem will never be the same. The clean-up will take years, maybe even decades (we can look at Alaska where the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill of 1989 took place to see this. They still have oil there in Prince William Sound as well as other places). The damages are extensive. This is unacceptable. This is criminal. Someone or some people at BP should go to jail for this because they have created a horror movie.

The BP Oil Spill is already more than 2x the size of the Exxon Valdez 1989 Oil Spill. The picture below shows just how large it is.

Somehow, mankind always seems to find a way to mess up or destroy the natural beauty God puts on Earth for us to enjoy.