Gulf Oil Spill: Residents' Skepticism, Resentment Remain Uncapped

I am a comerical diving colector for shells and ecodurms (sand dollars/sea biscutts) during the summer season May threw september. I had some very big orders to fill this year 2010. By the way I live in the fla. keys. the moneys i make help pay for my lobster and stone crab traping . like boat repairs, trap repars,fishing permits,labor etc. with all tv news all over the world it put me out of business this season. all my customers cancled my diving orders. so it was like a domono efect. The news showed tar balls washing up on the keys beaches and made mass meadia event like it came from the deep water horizon. My business depends on the toust trade down here. so my customers got scared and cancled ther orders, so as of now it looks this season will be a mager bust for me, my family, and my helpers. my whife just opend a cleaning business last year. she said her cleanings are down 50% plus. we filed with BP so we are praying we will get help. MVBLUEBANDIT(THE CHUM CHUCKER) & FAMILY KEY LARGO ,Fl.

"Roughly 25 percent of the spilled oil was collected by processes such as skimming, 25 percent has deteriorated or been consumed by microbes, and 25 percent has dispersed.".....WHICH MEANS 25% OF THE OIL, ABOUT 5 TIMES LARGER THAN THE EXXON VALDEZ, IS REMAINING IN THE GULF. THIS DISASTER IS BEING SWEPT UNDER THE RUG, OR MORE LIKE UNDER THE SURFACE (WITH TOXIC CHEMICALS). NOT ONLY HAS BP BOUGHT A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF ADVERTISING, BUT IT'S NOW APPEARS BP HAS BOUGHT THE NEWS MEDIA AS WELL.

Davis is a resident and knows better than the goverment what will or will not work.Let the man do what he thinks is best.As from the start of this it always seems to me that thad allen and now zukfunt are in the pockets of big oil,is corruption in the air as we all know how bp can move mpney around.Maybe we shpould look into the coast guard a little mopre, as there opinions help bp and not AMERICANS.

It is almost as if our federal government wanted to make the damage worse so they can justify their moritorium for offshore drilling. Their group of environmentalists they put in charge of making decisions on the offshore drilling is stacked to be prejudiced against any kind of drilling. They are putting those in the oil industry related businesses out of work in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. The Oil industry is an even bigger employer than the those in the marine fisheries. At a time of high unemployment, it seems all this president and his cohorts are interested in is pushing their environmental and social agenda forward instead of making putting Americans back to work! I do not understand this adminsitration's priorities. They have an attitude as if they are English aristocrats from the eighteenth and nineteenth centry. The democrats are no longer a party that represent the very people that voted them in but instead a party of "my way or the highway!"

Remains "Uncapped"....The irony!

Bp has fired the majority of the coastal workers and those boats that were keeping the Gulf waters clean. Since different scientist has stated that up to 80% of the oil is still in the bottom of the Gulf and Bp is doing nothing to remove it, why would anyone believe anything Bp has to say?

let get the job done right the place, while bp still pay for it's and the expend.