Anyone buying this BS that the oil spill is almost over?

As someone who lives in Florida by the coast I can tell you a lot of the oil has been cleaned up. They are moving super fast with the clean up. I'm not defending them because BP really did mess up with not having extra backup's with the oil containers. But they are working quickly to clean it up. It is costing a lot of money but so far BP has paid most of it back to the USA and plans to pay it all back plus more for the pain and suffering. I think BP messed up big time but they are trying to fix this.

The majority of the oil that had been floating on the surface has either been dispersed chemically or removed by the skimmers. This in no way indicates that the Gulf is clean or that the shoreline is clean but a lot of progress has been made. The effort to clean up the surface oil actually has been quite large, involving hundreds of boats, including private fishing boats. This was only the first phase though...the most important since this oil threatened the coast...but only one part of the total cleanup operation. There is still concern about oil sitting at the bottom of the ocean and of course, what is clogging the marshes. There is a big concern down here that BP is trying to bamboozle the federal government so that they can pull out before the job is completely finished. None of the governors of the various states effected, nor the parish leaders in Louisiana, are giving them any slack though. I believe that the president wanted to reassure the public that the Gulf coast was safe so that the tourists we depend on down here will return but, according to our governor, he is also listening to the state leaders and will not allow BP to pull out until we're comfortable that the job is done. I'm sure he knows how loudly we will scream if that happens. Even after everything is cleaned up we still face a lot of uncertainty when it comes to the future of the fishing industry in this area of the country.

Now didn't you know that the minute that this cap was put on the well and the oil stopped flowing, that this would all be gone. It took men flying 75 miles out to find fresh water with out any oil on it, so that entire 75 miles is clean. They skimmed it off the top of the water, so what is left under the water. How much has sank to the bottom, where these shrimp lay. Would you eat the seafood that is going to be caught and sold, sold that is if they could find someone to sell it to,seems from what I read the docks are not open and the buyers are not there. I'm sorry I spent 17 years up to Katrina 20 miles above Venice, and I would not eat it. All BP is wsiting on is for the government to say it is ok, and they gone, who will continue to pay for this mess, who will clean the marshes. Once the government says it is now safe, BP will haul azz out of there, is it going to take people dying eating this seafood before it is caught and sent out to resturants, and sold to people. Yes it is laying on the ocean floor, I seen a man the other day on the news that dropped something in the water and stuck his arm into try and retrive it and brought his arm up and it was covered with oil to his elbow, so the surface is clean or looks clean, no one cares what is under the water, yet the seafood is safe. If it has to be washed off the birds, who washes it off the seafood. I heard Obama say that BP will remain there untill the State of Louisiana thinks their job is done and I hope that he sticks by this statement. We will see what happen in the next days to come, but my opinion is they will be let off the hook way before it is finished.

I think it depends on the definition of "almost" and "over." If by over they mean oil gushing out of the busted well. Then, yes, sure, almost over. However, for those people that have to experience the effects of this spill, it's far from over. I think BP and the government (for a variety of reasons) define it as the former, and a lot of people in the region would describe it as the latter.

Of course it's not over, the spilling may be stopped but all the after effects of it aren't going to stop. It won't be clean again for a long, long time. That's just how it is and no matter how they spin it, it's not going to just be "poof, the ocean's clean again."

corporations today are very powerful.they flex their muscle within the boundaries of law or underneath it.congress has little influence on them.just like what BP exec showed during their hearing in the u.s. congress,they have a few answers to alot of questions.and most answers are all i dont know or im not aware.

Ever heard of "solution by dilution"? Yeah, it is a chemical term. But in layman's terms it simply means that you if put a small amount of something into a vastly larger amount of something than it will eventually become undetectable. Does that mean that I buy what BP and the government are telling me? NO! But I think it is more in the middle ground area. Not as bad as it was but a little worse than what is being depicted. Yeah, some of its due to BP and the cleanup efforts. But part of it is because some of that oil drifted out of the gulf on the natural currents and as it traveled the amount became diluted and is mostly likely invisible to naked eye detection.