Oil rigs in the Gulf...

Rush just mentioned a recent story which suggested that the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico are having the reverse impact on marine life as the enviro-whackos would have you believe.

Here is an excerpt from a story I found:

• IN THE 1990s, Greenpeace famously likened the dumping of old oil platforms in the deep ocean to throwing empty beer cans into the sea. But a report published on 8 April supports claims that disused oil platforms can become havens for marine life - at least in the warm, shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico, where 3600 rigs are in place off Louisiana alone.

Here is the Washington comPost story he was referring to:

• A rusting oil rig perched on the muddy bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, notorious for its vast "dead zone" off the Mississippi Delta, might seem an unlikely setting for a thriving ecosystem.

  But that is exactly what Paul Sammarco has found on more than a dozen of the 4,000-plus drilling platforms that dot the Gulf. Sammarco, a marine biologist at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, has discovered that the rigs have spawned lush marine habitats that are home to a profusion of rare corals and 10,000 to 30,000 fish each.

Reminder of Quinn's First Law: Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent...