Today’s reports indicate that the impact of the BP Oil Spill is now reaching not only places like Pensacola, FL, but I even saw a local news report linking the oil spill to some environmental concerns in the Meadowlands region in NJ, just outside of Manhattan. The reach of this disaster now reminds me of some sort of unwanted plaque travelling through the major water arteries of …

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Here’s an interesting twist from a reader—though I have to say, those of us who lean toward the skeptical side of things have perhaps had this thought nestled in our minds already… What if, just what if, BP didn’t really want a quick fix for the mess it’s created? Not that they don’t care about all those who’ve been impacted. Not that they don’t want to make things right. …

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I’m ashamed to admit that after spending seemingly countless hours with a garden hose nozzle in-hand, I have not correlated it to a possible fix for the  BP Oil Spill . (Clearly, I am no match for that self-made perpetual font of “good things”, Martha Stewart.) But, then again, that’s what folks like Elle and Steve are for. Elle, or Steve, or both of them, emailed this one to …

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You would think in a country that not only put a man on the moon but also spawned such tongue-tripping loquaciousness as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious that we’d be able to come up with a fix—a long-term, solid solution—to the BP Oil Spill . It’s apparently been more of a challenge than the bigwig oil engineers could contend with—and, rather than bringing together the …

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