shore is yesterday i went out with the coast guard to burn the oil gathered around the spill site. it s about 3 to 12 miles from the site of the deepwater horizon. they are collecting these oil in booms and burning them. this is actually, john, a relative success in this operation. they are burning on some days we only know this anecdote tale, up to 5,000 barrels of oil an hour and up to 30,000 or 40,000 barrels a day. you see a success burning the oil so it doesn t get to shore and kill pelicans and shrimp and oysters. you also see a big, big plume of smoke in the area, and everybody says, what are we doing to the environment with the smoke. can you imagine we are in a place where we decided it is less dangerous to burn the oil and have the pollution go into the air than to have that oil go to shore and continue to damage