Heavy oil hits Louisiana shore


By Matthew Bigg Matthew Bigg – Wed May 19, 6:36 pm ET

VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) – The first heavy oil from a giant Gulf of Mexico spill sloshed ashore in fragile Louisiana marshlands on Wednesday and part of the mess entered a powerful current that could carry it to Florida and beyond.

The developments underscored the gravity of the situation as British energy giant BP Plc raced to capture more crude gushing from a ruptured well a mile beneath the surface. The spill is threatening an ecological and economic disaster along the U.S. Gulf Coast and beyond.

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The long term socioeconomic, not to mention environmental, fallout from this single event is just immense!  At least something was done to block the installation of more oil rigging along the coast.  Unfortunately, it seems to take a crisis like this for environmentally viable fuel alternatives to be taken seriously.  History will continue to repeat itself when the American public and Congress are willing partners buying into the addiction to big oil, whether in this country or overseas.