Sunday, April 24, 2011

The media reporting tar balls on Texas beaches is like Marvin reporting "Texas has a whorehouse in it"

I am 66 years old now and there have seen tar balls on Texas beaches since I was five at least. Tar balls have been on Texas beaches off and on since the first Spanish explorers noticed them and made note of it. It is believed to be from natural seepage. It is also the reason oil experts in the first years after the Spindletop and Kilgore oilfields were discovered thought that Texas sat on an ocean of oil and the tar balls were further evidence of this. Saying that the tar balls on Galveston were from Deepwater Horizon is very likely adding 2 and 2 and getting 5. My take is local reporters originally from somewhere else with very little knowledge of our area have made a supposition and have asked local "officials" of equal knowledge their opinion using leading questions. Now Fox News reports it as fact. Is there any venue where I can go to get actual news? I thought it was Fox.

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