What Could Be Worse Than the Gulf Oil Spill?

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I have been hearing practically non stop about the Gulf oil spill, as I'm sure we all have. After all it's a devastating event for the environment, wildlife, vegetation, not to mention the people living and making a living in those areas. It's as terrible as it is sad. My heart goes out to anything and anybody effected.

But it got me thinking. And after doing some reading and a little research, I found something as bad and probably much worse than the Gulf oil spill. That's hard to believe huh? Well, what I found out is that the bigger problem is right under our noses. It's around us day and night, 24/7/365. Any ideas what this invisible demon might be? It's more obvious than you might think. It used to be "in the news" a lot more. Okay, enough suspense.

The ongoing disaster that's worse than the oil spill is ... air pollution. That's right. Air pollution causes more damage, effects more of the environment and devastates more lives than the oil spill ever will. So far the estimated amount of oil spilled in the Gulf is about 126 million gallons, but this is not the first devastating oil spill in history and it won't be the last.

Remember the Exxon Valdez that dumped 11 million gallons of heavy crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989? Or when the rig over the Ixtoc 1 well in Mexico's Bay of Campeche exploded and sank; 140 million gallons of oil poured into the Gulf over the next 10 months.

The present spill and those that occurred over the last 30 years have been the worst peacetime oil spills, but they are dwarfed by the 460 million gallons spilled into the Persian Gulf when Saddam Hussein's retreating troops sabotaged wells, tankers, and storage facilities in 1991.

The reason I point all this out is: Remember I said that the BP spill is at 126 million gallons? The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) estimates that "the country disgorges that much hydrocarbon pollution to the air in 10 days." By burning fossil fuels in cars, power plants and factories, we fill the air with dangerous poisons like carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, ozone, volatile organic compounds and microscopic grit. This in turn causes multiple ailments such as heart desease and defects effecting everyone from babies to the elderly.

So, when we hear about the oil spill in the Gulf and we get angry with BP, the Government or whoever, remember what we are doing to ourselves everyday without nearly as much concern. I guess seeing it and hearing about it makes all the difference.

Walter Wilson

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