Bummer!

I wonder if they tried using it with any other skimming technology, such as Kevin Costner's centrifugal oil separation machines. They've only got 4 or those, I'd like to see about a hundred of them on barges surrounding A Whale dumping recovered oil into it. These absorbent booms seem unnecessarily messy and hard to handle onece they've absorbed oil. Somebody needs to get creative here.

If BP needed a plumber to tell them how to connect a cap to the well itself, I think they may not be thinking outside the box.

The coverage now will be on the clean up and Obama can't blame the government's lousy performance on that front on BP alone.