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Doesn't cause gigantic impacts. some of it leeches out. it it is having impact but there's not massive impacts like we've seen over the last 87 days. we've seen a horrible disaster, coating of the marsh lands, killing dolphin, that portion of the spill is over. there will be long-term impacts. we don't know what they are. but i'm predicting they will be relatively mild and that they will start decreasing in intensity. some long-term impacts will be found. >> stan, do you agree with that assessment? do we have enough information to know whether or not the disperse ents are dangerous? >> no, we ...

Incredibly resilient. it will return to normal. the bacteria are out there and they are helping. we are also helped with tropical weather that dispersed the residual oil and breaks it into smaller components. concentrated oil can't be degraded fast. dispersed oil can be. bonnie helped in that respect. >> stan, do you agree? do you believe that there's been bacteria that is eating the oil, that the oil's so dispersed that's the reason we can't see it? >> well, there's no doubt there's action by things like bacteria that can degrade the oil, but it's really way too soon to say where all of the o...

The end of this, we're still in the middle of the spill that's not quite the middle it's on the backside of the spill. we can give you an estimate where the oil's is. what i think happened prior to the shutoff the gulf became acclimated with petroleum degrading bacteria. we had a gigantic petroleum degrading treatment pond if you will, and on day 87 the flow of oil was cut off, you still have all of the bacteria out there, and they are degrading the residual oil floating around in an environment very quickly. i think they're degrading easy to degrade components first, components that would she...