Tar balls have washed up on Cocoa Beach, Fla., according to newspaper reports. Whether they are from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico remains to be seen.Cocoa Beach is well up the eastern Atlantic Coast of the Sunshine State, near Cape Canaveral. The BP gusher is in the Gulf of Mexico, far to the west. Until now, only parts of the Florida panhandle, along with the coastal areas of other Gulf states, have been directly impacted by the oil. However, experts have theorized that the oil might get caught in warm-water currents that could move it around the southern Florida Keys and up the East Coast.
If the Cocoa Beach tar balls are from the Gulf, that would be catastrophic news for all of Florida. As it is, restaurants are feeling the shortages of available seafood from Miami to Jacksonville.
Meanwhile, the latest from BP is that the potential relief-well fix is ahead of schedule. Plugging the leak could begin as early as the end of July. Of course, virtually nothing BP has predicted has turned out to be accurate, so today's news is taken with a large grain of salt.
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