Oil tar balls seen in Key West

[kaisersozei]

If the oil coalesces into tar balls, wouldn't that make it easier to just scoop all up?

[thebayratt]

I live on the MS gulf coast. They said we would have oil on our beaches 36 hours after the rig crashed and oil started leaking..... a week later they said the oil would be at our barrier islands........... Here it is 3 weeks or more and we haven't seen anything.

Here is another food for thought.... There is oil that naturally comes up from the ocean floor everyday..... Maybe this is where the Keys' oil came from. That or some Cuban immagrants with a '76 Chevy Pickup floating on barrels sprung a leak on thier way to freedom~

Originally Posted by kaisersozei

If the oil coalesces into tar balls, wouldn't that make it easier to just scoop all up?

Yes, it will eventually harden into what called "coke" if left alone, if im not mistaken. The sun will harden it. They (BP, scientists, etc..) said, if it mainly just sits in the ocean floating around, it will eventually either harden (making it easy to pickup) or harden and sink to the ocean floor. This oil is nothing like the thick goo that the Valdez tragedy had. This oil is a whole different make up and not as thick.

My Dad worked at Chevron Oil Refinery in my hometown for 30yrs. Coke is a byproduct of gasoline production that can be burned to be used in power plants; but the US government made it illegal to do in the USA years back, so we sell to third world countries and they use it in their powerplants. Coke looks like charcoal crushed up into a power like substance.

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