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Dealing with the biggest oil disaster in u.s. history and yet we're relying on technology to clean it up that is 30, 40, 50 years old. has the technology to clean up a spill just simply not advanced, and if not, why not? >> tom, i'm not the best expert on the technology, but i think events like this typically advance the technology by leaps and bounds. the story line on booms still rely on skippers and on schultzs 40 years after the spill in the gulf of mexico of the why don't you have giant vacuums sucking tubes? why don't you the most high-tech 21st century response to this? >> tom, part of ...

Bp regional oil spill response plan for the gulf of mexico. oh, we meant to do that. we were talking about all species everywhere plus unicorns. that's not really an answer. it's not even a remotely believable answer. but that's not the worst or the most embarrassing answer that doug gave on that helicopter ride with tom costello. he also asked him about the oil industry truth with which i have become obsessed since this disaster started you might have noticed. tom costello asked why the drilling technology has come so far so fast while the cleanup after a spill technology is the same as it wa...

Learned to read the permit applications is that the oil industry predicted the chances of a blowout like what happened at the deep water horizonhorizo predicted the chance of a blowout were zero. i wanted to ask you if your industry did they actually believe that a chance of a blowout is zero or are they conscious that's what they have to say. >> this is part of the complacent see that i've talked over the last couple months or so. the industry has experienced. the industry actually has thought that a chance of a blowout like this was zero or close to zero or that they had the technology to st...

Plan for the gulf of mexico. so we meant to do that. we were talking about all species everywhere plus unicorns. that's not really an answer. it's not even a remotely believable answer. that's not the worst or most embarrassing answer that doug gave on that helicopter ride with tom costello. he asked him about the oil industry truth with which i have become obsessed since this disaster started you might have noticed. tom costello asked why the drilling technology has gone so far so fast while the cleanup after a spill technology is the same as it was 30 or 40 years ago. while i'm not exactly s...

>> 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 ...