Oil Leak and Dinosaurs

The gulf oil leak is a disaster and growing out of control. I heard today that there is enough oil in the under sea reservoir to continue to leak at the current rate for 100 years. Now that is a lot of oil.

I wish our government took this more seriously. Blaming BP is fine, make them pay, but meanwhile get the mess cleaned up. It looks like no one knows what to do except BP who also does not know what to do. Who gave them the permits to drill this thing? Who reviewed the environmental impact statement? Are they getting a cost of living raise this year? If this was a Seinfeld episode it would be funny but it isn't. What a mess of oil and ineptitude. The government is good at some things but not so good at dealing with environmental disasters.

But back to the point. If this oil reservoir is as big as they say it is-100 years at the current rate-where did it come from? Decaying dinosaurs? That is a lot of dead reptiles piled up. I am not a creationist and Darwin makes a lot of sense with amphibians to reptiles to mammals to apes to people. But how did all these dinosaurs pile up to create this much oil? I don't know where it came from but I know where it is going which is in the ocean and that is not a good thing.

Billions of dead dinosaurs now back in the primordial soup. It makes you wonder what will come out of the gulf with all this old DNA swimming around. Maybe it will congeal and reform into dinosaurs and they will walk out on land. Then we can herd them into the Grand Canyon and the Gulf will be clean. Whoa, I have to get to work on the screen play.