Blunt Joins Chorus of Republicans Peddling Lies
On Sunday’s CNN Late Edition Roy Blunt (R-MO), a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, joined what seems like a never-ending chorus of Republicans (including McCain himself) that have been making the demonstrably false claim that there weren’t any major spills caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Blunt: If there was ever a test of this system it’s in the one place that we do drill which is the gulf—4,000 platforms in the gulf—thank God we’ve got them. 238 of them were injured by either Katrina or Rita. There was really no oil loss of any appreciable kind at any of those. Less oil was lost than used to seep up out of the gulf floor.”
In fact, as I continue to note each time a new version of this lie is spoken, there were at least 124 oil spills as a result of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The website Skytruth.org even has posted satellite images of the spills (posted above) as seen from space. The EPA called the spills “worse than the worst-case scenario.”
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