After the oil rush

After the oil rush BP has said that about 40% of everything we see coming out of the well is “natural gas”. Natural gas is a general term, which can include things like ethane and propane, but this well is probably 98% methane. Methane causes asphyxiation by displacing oxygen. Methane gas is extremely flammable and will easily cause explosions. It can leak unnoticed into structures and spaces & a tiny spark can ignite the undetected gas. The U.S. government issued a moratorium on offshore drilling in the Arctic, off Prudhoe Alaska. To get around that, BP created a man-made "island" out of gravel. Then they claimed they were not drilling offshore, but on "land.......hmm!