Where'd it all go?

Remember how we on the right believe that Mother Nature can take care of herself?


Looks like we were right...again.

For 86 days, oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's damaged well, dumping some 200 million gallons of crude into sensitive ecosystems. BP and the federal government have amassed an army to clean the oil up, but there's one problem -- they're having trouble finding it. 

But . but it was there!!  We know it was!


That's not to say it's all rainbows and unicorns (yes, I went there), but those of you who were saying it'd destroy the gulf and this is why we MUST convert to "green energy" have just lost one of your key arguments.

At its peak last month, the oil slick was the size of Kansas, but it has been rapidly shrinking, now down to the size of New Hampshire.

Today, ABC News surveyed a marsh area and found none, and even on a flight out to the rig site Sunday with the Coast Guard, there was no oil to be seen. 

But just because you can't see it...

"That oil is somewhere. It didn't just disappear," said Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser. 

Nope, nobody's saying it's completely gone, Mr. Nungesser.   It's in the process of breaking up and shrinking back into the floor beds.. (fortunately)

Salvador Cepriano is one of the men searching for crude. Cepriano, a shrimper, has been laying out boom with his boat, but he's found that there's no oil to catch

"I think it is underneath the water. It's in between the bottom and the top of the water," Cepriano said.

Even the federal government admits that locating the oil has become a problem.
"It is becoming a very elusive bunch of oil for us to find," said National Incident Cmdr. Thad Allen

That line could be a South Park sketch for ages...oil that just moves around... and hides.  (I think I might have seen that in a few Sy-Fy movies now that I think about it).   But how fast is the oil breaking up?

The numbers don't lie: two weeks ago, skimmers picked up about 25,000 barrels of oily water. Last Thursday, they gathered just 200 barrels.

Still, it doesn't mean that all the oil that gushed for weeks is gone. Thousands of small oil patches remain below the surface, but experts say an astonishing amount has disappeared, reabsorbed into the environment."

[It's] mother nature doing her job," said Ed Overton, a professor of environmental studies at Louisiana State University.

No! You don't say!  We were right about that too? And us without any PhD's in geology, meteorology and all those other -ologies that you pad a resume with.