[portej05]

Massive Oil Spill (ABC News)

This one is fast becoming a major political issue here.

[Hellstryker]

Poor Australians, you guys just don't get a break, do you? 

[iamzack]

Is the fire out yet? I'm going to be sad if the water catches on fire.

[ssmit132]

At least that would burn off all the oil.

But I think the worst of the Victorian bush fires are over.

[iamzack]

I guess the one fortunate thing is that oil floats on the water. So the animals that don't hang around on the surface are a bit less harmed... But I suppose the oil blocks out sunlight for those underwater plants and the phytoplankton that the underwater animals eat. *sigh*

But ecological disaster doesn't compare to the loss of income from fewer tourists.

[Spicious]

Bushfires were in Victoria; flooding was in Queensland.

[iamzack]

Yeeah, I don't know the difference. Poor, ignant redneck and all that. *shrug*

[tinfoil]

Jesus Christ, the kind of optimists Australians must be...