An Oily Hurricane Season Can Be Devastating

Maybe.

With the advent of the hurricane season in the United States, researchers are unsure how it will affect or be affected by the current oil spill from the explosion of BP PLC's Deepwater Horizon rig.

Scientists and experts are unsure what will happen if a storm should hit the area right now.

Some are hoping that it would help disperse the oil much like what happened during the Ixtoc 1 spill.

At that time while oil from that spill coated miles of beaches in Texas and Mexico, the tropical storms and unseasonable cold fronts that year helped reverse offshore currents earlier than normal and drive oil away from the coast and at the same time helped disperse some of the oil.

Worst case scenario is to have storm surges bring the oil deeper inland, affecting inland freshwater canals, flora and fauna.

Even now syrupy oil has crept into Louisiana's marshes, coating plants, killing some birds and threatening wetlands. What will happen if the oil gets driven farther inland is anybody's guess - but the guesses are not positive.

Right now BP's attempts to cap the gushing oil has failed and they are trying to find other ways to deal with the leak.

What has irked Washington and the people living in the coast is BP's silence as to what really happened and what they have been doing thus far.

Many are wondering when Washington will finally put their foot down and start to act and not just let BP make a fool out of them.

The extent of the damage done and that will happen in the future is no joke.

And when hurricane season finally begins it will be between the "now" damage of the storms and the "longer term" damage of the oil spill.

Either way no one wins.