Ron Paul: Tar balls on TX beaches for years past

[Matt Collins]

Watch the video on this page:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/08/ron.paul.iowa/

[Brian4Liberty]

What Ron said it that there has always been tar on some of those Texas beaches. It's the same in Southern California (LA to Santa Barbara). There is always a certain amount of small tar balls. Just finding those on the beach does not mean anything significant. Big gooey blobs of oil are a different thing entirely.

[Natalie]

I'm going to the beach in Galveston tomorrow. I'll check for oil while I'm swimming. :cool:

[Bruno]

Partially due ot the 27,000 abandoned wells in the gulf?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/07/gulf-awash-abandoned-oil-gas-wells/

[Dr.3D]

When I was a kid, back in the '60s, I noticed tar balls on the beach in Tampico Mexico. I kind of wondered how they got there, but they were not really any big deal.

[Brian4Liberty]

Partially due ot the 27,000 abandoned wells in the gulf?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/07/gulf-awash-abandoned-oil-gas-wells/

No doubt. It's both natural seepage and man-made leaks. Anyone who claims to know the percentage of the two is lying.

[Kotin]

I'm going to the beach in Galveston tomorrow. I'll check for oil while I'm swimming. :cool:

Be careful.. I don't know how bad it is or if it's bad at all.. But from what I have read there are many toxins in the effected water and air..

[dannno]

Big gooey blobs of oil are a different thing entirely.

Well I've actually seen some pretty big gooey blobs of tar on the beach up north of here a ways, but usually around here they are just small tar balls.

The big gooey blobs will naturally get up to as big as a 1 foot radius or so blob of tar, that I've seen. One of my friends kneeled down into one and it took him a long time to get it all off his skin when we got back.

[TonySutton]

Spent many years in coastal North Carolina, tar balls were not uncommon.

[kahless]

Spent many years in coastal North Carolina, tar balls were not uncommon.

I remember seeing tar balls along the beach at the New Jersey shore as a kid.

[Brian4Liberty]

If all oil leaks (natural and man-made) were completely stopped today, we would probably still have tar balls washing up on the shores for the next 100,000 years...

[coastie]

I've never seen them on Panama City Beach...until recently:mad:

[TonySutton]

I've never seen them on Panama City Beach...until recently:mad:

Does Panama City clean their beaches? I know some beaches do.

[RCA]

Spent many years in coastal North Carolina, tar balls were not uncommon.

not uncommon = common

sorry, couldn't resist

;)

[dannno]

If all oil leaks (natural and man-made) were completely stopped today, we would probably still have tar balls washing up on the shores for the next 100,000 years...

Well tar balls on the beach were reportedly common around here hundreds of years ago according to Native American tribes... so probably longer

[raiha]

They have got tarballs as big as a school bus on the Mississippi coast according to a new article... guess they're not so common in Texas.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100708/us_nm/us_oil_spill_mississippi

[coastie]

Does Panama City clean their beaches? I know some beaches do.

I imagine they do, not sure. I've been there early in the morning and see people cleaning the beach-but of trash and such, not tar balls.

Not saying they dont exist here, I've just never seen them before. You cant walk on this beach in the summertime without sunglasses on, the sand is that white, so I'd assume they'd be pretty easy to spot.