The most disgraceful thing about the whole thing is that they were allowed to pour 800,000 gallons of the poison dispersant into the gulf. As others have stated, the toxic dispersant may turn out to be a bigger disaster than the oil itself.
I honestly think it was somewhat of a joint conspiracy between BP and the government. They thought they could fool people into thinking the spill wasn't that bad if there wasn't too much visible oil. They didn't really care if the dispersant was dangerous or not. The dispersant makes the oil going down to the bottom of the sea where nobody can see it. The oil being at the bottom of the sea is just as dangerous, if not more dangerous for the ecosystem than if the oil was sitting on top of the ocean. I think it's actually better if the oil is on top of the ocean because at least that can be cleaned up.
The government and BP didn't care how dangerous the dispersant was. I think they were much more interested in having less visible oil for public relations purposes.
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