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How to Solve the Ecological Disaster in
the Gulf and Turn the Oil Spill into A Gold Rush
by H.Melamed
There has to be a better solution to the
cleanup of the current oil spill in the gulf of Mexico.
Current deployment of the fisherman and clean up crews is
really not cutting it so to speak, as more an more oil hits the
shores of Louisiana, or Florida or Alabama. The worst
ecological disaster in the United States, calls for drastic measures
to get the clean up done.
So far I have seen nothing that would
indicate that drastic measures are being deployed, nor anything creative
being done
to remove the oil spill and return the enviroment to its original
state. The government said that it was looking for new creative ways
to solve the problem. We need to throw money at the problem,
without throwing it away.
My solution : Pay anyone money to turn over oil they find.
In fact, with more than 40 million gallons of crude oil spilled
in the gulf, I bet if we offer anyone and everyone $100 per gallon
of crude oil they extract from the gulf, this problem would be
solved ....quickly! In fact, the price would set off a new "
Crude Rush" similar to the California Gold Rush where settlers made
their way in search of new fortune in prospecting. Sending the
word around the world that the US Government with pay you $100 per
gallon, will attract investors, entrepreneurs, workers ....anyone
and everyone one that would be chomping at the bit to get their
' stake' of ocean to make the money.
The added benefit would be that all of these people need places to
stay, eat, etc.....and the gulf coast hotels that are now losing
money would be ahead of the game. We may even see a brothel or
two as saloons set up to service the new prospecting customers.
 Even
those Tar Balls ( seen on the right) washing up on the beaches
would provide the Golden Nugget so to speak to anyone that
finds them. Assuming that the average tar ball is the size of
a baseball, it would take 18 tar balls per gallon. That
means you would get $5.33 per tar ball ! That's better than
those beach combers that use metal detectors looking for all kinds
of junk. The gulf coast beaches would be lined with
prospectors gathering the balls and cleaning the beaches at the same
time. The money they make of course would be spent locally
providing a badly needed injection into the economy.
The total cost of this program would be $4 billion if of course BP
does not try to recover any of the crude themselves. Of course
if the oil keeps flowing into the gulf at the rate of 700,000
gallons per day...that means another $70 Million dollars in Crude
Gold available to anyone that wants to claim it. Even the fisherman
that are losing thousands every day would re-bait their hooks in
search of tar balls, and outfit their boats with suction equipment.
Fishing would take on a whole different meaning.
With this kind of money, the problem from both an ecological and
economical impact would be solved! In fact, I can see no
better use for that 'stimulus' money everyone seems to be
talking about.
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6/01/2010
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