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Oil Slicks are Natural in Nature.

 (countyofsb.org) First Posted here  jan29, 2008

you read that right.

 Environmentalism is BIG business, BIG religion.

Natural oil seeps in the Santa Barbara Channel introduce substantial volumes of hydrocarbons into the marine environment.

 Seepage rates may be on the order of 100 barrels of oil per day.

  Note that while nature dumps 100-400 barrels of oil per day,;

"an offshore spill of on the scale of 100-200 barrels is capable of causing significant environmental damage"

or in other words, the gist of the article, only man-made oil slicks are bad.

The article is highly speculative, yet gleanings are possible.

"The Western States Petroleum Association cites a figure of 150-170 barrels of liquid oil seepage from the sea floor in the Coal Oil Point area each day. 

In a discussion paper on natural seeps, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) used a seepage rate estimate of 11-160 barrels per day.

Quigley cites previous estimates, ranging from 10-100 to 25-400 barrels per day.

Quigley’s own estimate is 130-190 barrels per day, and other recent estimates fall into the same range.

The Hydrocarbon Seeps Project at U.C.S.B. puts the figure at 100 barrels (4,200 gallons) per day.

Fischer, extrapolating seep volumes for the whole Santa Barbara basin based on the distribution of mapped seeps, estimated total seep volume in the basin to be about 70% greater than for the Coal Oil Point area alone.

Seeps are known from anecdotal reports to be active in the Santa Maria Basin, but have been less studied, and seep volume estimates do not exist for north of Point Conception.

 Active seeps are also known adjacent to the Channel Islands, including a large seep at Frazer Point, at the western end of Santa Cruz Island. "

Oil spills by "mother" nature:

"4200" gallons per day X 365 = 1,533,000 gallons per year, EVERY YEAR, in this small area alone.

-and you never hear about it-

because it's hardly noticeable.

and the reality is - it isn't a big deal - at all.

Related Study: Man's oil wells reduce the amount of Mother Nature's spills.

Other related articles here

Twice an Exxon Valdez spill worth of oil seeps into the Gulf of Mexico every year, 

(science daily) Jan 27, 2000

"A gallon of oil can spread over a square mile very quickly."

"But the oil isn't destroying habitats or wiping out ocean life. The ooze is a natural phenomena that's been going on for many thousands of years"

Scientists document fate of oil slicks from natural seeps (escience news) May 13,2009

"And then there are massive slicks. You can see them,

sometimes extending 20 miles from the seeps."

"These natural seeps release some 20 to 25 tons of oil daily,

providing an ideal laboratory to investigate the fate of oil in the coastal ocean"

8-80 times more than the Exxon Valdez.

 - and not a big deal.

Natural Oil Seeps in the Gulf of Mexico
A NASA Earth Observatory news release from February 3, 2009

Great Photos!
Betcha don't hear much about these.

Seeps: Between one-third and one-half of the oil in the ocean comes from naturally occurring seeps.

(woods whole oceanographic institution)

Again, another site biased by their worship at the alter of the religion of environmentalism.

Ocean oil seeps are shown to be the major cause for ocean oil pollution, yet also the worry tripe:  "The drippings and emissions from millions of machines accumulate on land and eventually run into our waterways"

However, again gleanings are for the taking:

Crude oil is "mother nature's" product. "She" poisons the planet every day.

lol. (I laugh at the stupidity and vanity of "environmentalists")

 California coast Oil seeps - 8-80 times more than the Exxon Valdez. - not a big deal.

Here's an oil company's estimate of the Santa Barbara seeps volume Venoco Inc.

"At a seepage rate of 150 barrels of oil per day, 55,000 barrels of oil seep into the ocean every year"

X 42 gallons per barrel = 2,310,000 gallons of oil per year.

consider Thomas Gold considering oil

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