[THS] 5 Reasons You Won't See the Worst of the Gulf Oil Spill

[The Harder Stuff in news and commentary]

Iran renews offer to help on US oil spill:

Mehran Alinejad, the head of special drilling operations at NIDC, pointed to the
experience gained by Iranian experts in containing huge oil leaks during the eight-
year Iraqi-imposed war in the 1980s, and said, "Iranian technical teams have had
major achievements in oil well capping and the Gulf of Mexico oil rig is not a great
feat in comparison."
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=127487&sectionid=351020101

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5 Reasons You Won't See the Worst of the Gulf Oil Spill: Chemical Dispersant Cover-
Up:

Despite the fact that nobody is sure exactly how toxic the stuff is, or how being
deployed on such a large scale will effect ecosystems, it will have at least one effect:
it will delay public outrage by masking the apparent extent of the spill's damage.
http://tinyurl.com/2aqnaje

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How Much Oil's Spilling? It's Not Rocket Science:

 Basically, the method for determining oil spillage boils down to common sense and
high school (or even middle school) geometry, specifically the formula for the volume
of a cylinder.
http://tinyurl.com/2exvzv8