Where Did the Oil Go II?

In my last blog, I talked a lot about the spill and the fact that there is so little coverage out there in the media. Several studies have been conducted by universities and civilian agencies alike.  However, their findings have not been seen in much of the media coverage.  I know that Florida's tourism is one of the main sources of revenue and we don't want to scare our money away, but that does not mean we need to be sheltered from the truth.  I know I would like to know what my children are out there swimming in when they go to the beach.  I myself am skeptical of letting them get into the water at all. You have the White House advisors saying over 3/4 of the oil is gone.  University of Georgia scientists say that 80% of the oil in the gulf still remains lurking beneath the surface.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/18/national/main6783833.shtml They are saying the data has obviously been misinterpreted for them to say most of the oil is gone, dispersed, or dissolved.   The scientists say these percentages they keep coming up with are practically made up because there is no data to back any of it up. Then they start spraying all this dispersant on the surface water.  The dispersant is supposed to break up the oil so that it will not bunch up and in turn dissolve and be further broken down by the ocean.  It turns out that all it is doing is breaking the oil up and sinking to the bottom. The University of Southern Florida's scientists say, which is also on the link provided. Why has the government not conducted any studies of their own and if they had why have they not shared any of their findings with the public?  USF scientists have found plankton which are at the bottom of the food chain, coated in the dispersant Corexit.  Eventually this stuff is going to make it all the way up the food chain and onto our plates and we have conducted very few studies on the long term affects of the oil or the Corexit.  So we don't know what the future may hold for those that depend on sea life for a living and for food.  The Environmental Protection Agency eventually came in and told British Petroleum to switch dispersents but do you really think they listened?contentMahttp://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0520/EPA-scolds-BP-in-Gulf-oil-spill-dispersant-is-too-toxic-change-it According to this link the volumes BP used of the Corexit far exceeded any previous use.  I wonder if in any of these previous uses any studies were conducted to tell the impact of this poison in those areas. To me it is just as if they swept the oil under the rug, not worrying about the future of the Gulf Coast or any of the life from plankton to humans.  The media isn't covering it anymore and in order to learn about it we must do research ourselves.  BP it seems to me is going to get away just paying the people in the region enough to shut them up for a bit, while our government does nothing to make them due what they promised.  One thing is for sure if we depend on BP or the government to let us know what the truth is we will never know it.