{"id":1328,"date":"2010-07-28T01:20:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T07:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2010-07-28T01:20:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T07:20:49","slug":"gulf-spill-and-dispersants-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/28\/gulf-spill-and-dispersants-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf Spills and Dispersants = STUPID!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a researcher, specialist, toxicologists, or even what I would <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>call<\/strong> truly knowledgeable&#8230; but even I understand what a Dispersant does.  You use it ever <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>day<\/strong> as <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>dish<\/strong> soap to remove grease and the old advertisements all said &#8211; and showed &#8211; the action of breaking down the larger globs into very small drops so it will &#8220;go away&#8221;.  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