Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "Major oil spill off California's coast could become an 'ecological disaster'" video.

  1. What's really sad is the US had good, electric powered mass transit, until a consortium of an oil company, tire company, and auto manufacturer bought up most of the streetcar lines, and dismantled them. Friends who lived in LA, in the 1940s, remember taking the red car line everywhere, from Pasadena to the beach, to the SF valley. In NYC, the electric street cars were replaced with smelly diesel busses. In Albuquerque and Portland, nothing replaced the streetcars for decades.
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  2.  @WayneSmith-lo8be  You are mistaken. Bacteria that can consume oil are few, and not common. The other commenter is correct, oil and tar don't normally biodegrade. That is why tar is used to make roadways.
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  3. I remember the Santa Barbara spill. I grew up in SLO, and my mom took us down to SB to help clean birds. So much wildlife died. It was really heartbreaking.
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