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>> glenn: great. i think we should stop buying boots for the government. b.p. is saying not our fault. theyre saying its transoceans fault. here is the thing. i thought government regulation was supposed to save us all from greed and corruption. okay? thats what the government is saying. mm-hmm. mm-hmm. they are supposed to save us from all of these oil rig explosions. in the fall-out of the exxon valdez spill, the oil pollution act of 1990 required that oil spill technology be on hand before a ...

You burn the oil off the top of the water. this was a government plan. it specifically recommends the government have fire booms on happened to stop these spills. well, the government didnt have any fire booms. eight days after the explosion, the obama administration scrambled to buy the only fire boom they could find. question number one: why are they trying to buy a fire boom when in 1994 the response plans, we should have them. why are we, why is our government buying one eight days after? wh...

>> glenn: great. i think we should stop buying boots for the government. b.p. is saying not our fault. theyre saying its transoceans fault. here is the thing. i thought government regulation was supposed to save us all from greed and corruption. okay? thats what the government is saying. mm-hmm. mm-hmm. they are supposed to save us from all of these oil rig explosions. in the fall-out of the exxon valdez spill, the oil pollution act of 1990 required that oil spill technology be on hand before a ...

You burn the oil off the top of the water. this was a government plan. it specifically recommends the government have fire booms on happened to stop these spills. well, the government didnt have any fire booms. eight days after the explosion, the obama administration scrambled to buy the only fire boom they could find. question number one: why are they trying to buy a fire boom when in 1994 the response plans, we should have them. why are we, why is our government buying one eight days after? wh...

Horizon well exploded according to published reports did federal officials purchase the fire boom they used to begin containing the spillage, though a federal plan for such disasters drawn up in 1994 called for just such a response. and might if adhered to resulted in the capture of 95% of the spilled oil. that apparent failure feeds in complaints launched by the "new york times" and rush limbaugh alike alleging the obama administration waited too long to arrest control of the accident from b.p....

Horizon well exploded according to published reports did federal officials purchase the fire boom they used to begin containing the spillage, though a federal plan for such disasters drawn up in 1994 called for just such a response. and might if adhered to resulted in the capture of 95% of the spilled oil. that apparent failure feeds in complaints launched by the "new york times" and rush limbaugh alike alleging the obama administration waited too long to arrest control of the accident from b.p....

Would be a black plume of smoke, there would be some fires that are going to be contained by a fire boom, its a special boom designed for this, but as far as the black plume of smoke, were not anticipating people to actually be able to see it from shore. martha: how wide an area? i mean, we can see that its spreading through this very wide area. do you light the fires around the perimeter of the whole area? how do you do it? >> i believe theyre just going to do a little at a time. i havent heard...

A massive oil slick in the gulf of mexico now moving closer to the coast. only about 20 miles away so the coast guard has a plan -- fire. cnns reynolds wolf live in venice, louisiana, this morning right there on the tip out in the gulf. hey, reynolds. >> reporter: hey, kyra. you know, the whole idea about doing this sounds like it would be pretty simple, doesnt it, just to clean it up by just throwing a match out there. lets be careful here. i mean, this could be a potentially dangerous situatio...