Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100612:01:32:00
>> that's about it, except we do have pom-pons, absorbant mats that once oil is received into a marsh, you want to absorb it, take it out of that marsh. the technical term is pom-pons. >> but that's once the oil has actually come onshore. >> that's right. that's right. >> so my sense just as a layman who doesn't know anything about this is that we're not very good at keeping oil offshore once it's in the water. >> no. so if you contrast the technological aspects of this, we have bamboo poles and absorbant mats relative to billion dollar drilling technology, highly advanced drilling technology ...