340 not running anymore...Help Please?
Yea cuz all the good gas producing oil is now dumping into our ocean's thanks to oil hungry money hungry *** faced republicans. :thebirdm:
On a serious note, check your fuel filter also...sometimes those can get crap sitting in them.
http://www.redcounty.com/oil-seeps-natures-biggest-oil-spills/39648?taxonomy=1873
Environmentalists take advantage of poor understanding of the natural world when pushing their agenda. For example, when opposing mining, they focus on metals, dust, and broken rock injected into the air and surrounding countryside by a mine. They do this while simultaneously ignoring metals, dust and broken rock at the foot of a glacier, flowing down a glacial river carving its path across the landscape, or spewing out of the throat of an active volcano. If nature does it, it is a Good thing. If man does it, it is a Great Evil.
So is it with oil spills. The hot story over the last couple weeks has been the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following the accident that sunk the British Petroleum (BP) drilling rig Deepwater Horizon. Our prayers should go out to the families and friends of the 11 men lost in the accident.
Interestingly enough, oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico are not uncommon. Natural oil spills in the form of oil seeps release about double the volume dumped by the Exxon Valdez every year into the Gulf over 22 million gallons per year. The sea life in and around the Gulf of Mexico use these hydrocarbons as fertilizer for the bacterial life at the bottom of the food chain and support some of the most productive marine ecosystems around this continent. (Hat tip to Dr. Jack Wheelers Half Full Report 5/07/10).
Here is a link to a 2000 NASA press release from their Earth Observatory discussing the Gulf. The second link connects to a 2006 photo from the Terra satellite of natural oil slicks south of the Mississippi delta. The third link goes to marine life around California coastal oil seeps. For more information, do a search with the keywords Gulf of Mexico oil seeps or California oil seeps for additional information. URL follows:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=20863
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=36873
http://www.mms.gov/omm/pacific/enviro/seeps2.htm
Globs of oil that you find on the sandy beaches of the Gulf of Mexico, California and the Atlantic seaboard are not manmade. They are a natural occurrence, and are as much a part of the natural environment as sharks, jellyfish and stingrays.
