The government fined them $4.5 billion. But that's nothing compared to the damage done. And we are paying their fine for them by buying their oil and gasoline.
Oil eating microbes are destroying sunken Nazi sub thanks to the Deepwater Horizon spillRemember when British Petroleum (BP), Halliburton, and ConocoPhillips indiscriminately dumped tens of thousands of gallons of Corexit into the Gulf of Mexico to supposedly remedy the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster? Well according to experts, this nasty chemical concoction is still floating around in that giant “bathtub,” and is actually now eating away at a submerged German U-boat that was sunk back in 1942 during World War II.
Photographic evidence reveals that the sunken Nazi vessel has basically become an all-you-can-eat buffet for the microscopic chemical byproducts of Corexit that are reportedly now feeding on the U-166, which was only recently discovered in 2001, “at an accelerated rate,” according to scientists.
Researchers from the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) say that, after Corexit’s anaerobic bacteria feed on the carbon and sulfur in crude oil, they generate a waste product that’s capable of corroding metal, which is exactly what’s happening to the sunken German U-166.
“The metal loss has accelerated after the spill and that’s very unusual,” stated USM Professor Leila Hamdan to New Scientist about the strange phenomenon.
