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Louisiana, only 200 to 300 miles of coastal marshlands have really been hit. i can't imagine that would have been a thousand or more mile fs that oil had not been removed from the surface and left to come ashore. clearly, in hindsight, use of dispersants, offshore skimming, burning offshore, that helped to save the coastline. there's trade-off, remember. damage to the oil shore marine species both at the surface and subsurface. >> obviously, the trains are still running, which is certainly a good thing, because we can hear the train behind you. i do want to point out, we got a picture from pla...

Was feared early on, will there be a way to judge whether it would have had that impact if it wasn't for the dispersants and if it wasn't for all the response efforts or will we never know? >> well, we'll truly never know, but clearly -- right now out of 7,000 miles, 7,000 plus miles in louisiana, only 200 to 300 miles of coastal marshlands have really been hit. i can't imagine that would have not been a thousand or more miles if that oil had not been removed from the surface and left to come ashore. clearly, in hindsight, use of dispersants, offshore skimming, burning offshore, that helped to...