No! No! Tony Hayward, BP’s CEO, was on that Other Yacht! Try again.
Horse Latitudes. http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2010/07/marooned-in-the-horse-latitudes.html#more
The President needs a new economic strategy or he’ll be a one-term President. Congress won’t let him add more to the deficit and consumers won’t buy more on credit. Unless business decides it’s time to invest in American jobs, this recession is going to last a long time.
So inquiring minds want to know: is it possible to rain oil?? Hurricane season is here! And there’s a giant oil slick in the Gulf! So hurricanes basically suck warm water vapor out of the Gulf like a gigantic vacuum cleaner and drop it on land (Little Rock?, Houston?). So someone needs to explain whether oil can evaporate and fall like rain on land. (If it can rain frogs … ) The “Internet” seems to say “no”- oil doesn’t evaporate, but the dispersants might… Stay tuned!