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Someone has the good sense to bring a picture of a dog and pony, because when it comes to parading out oil ceos today to rip them over their tax subsidies more than a few barking. >> you think anyone who advocates cutting these subsidies is un-american? >> well -- >> yes or no, sir. >> are you willing to apologize? >> there's nothing intended personally. >> so you're not willing to apologize? do you understand how out-of-touch that is? >> seemed to go well today. one of those ceos fires back, because the chevron boss is here. welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. today the only surprise was wha...

The mud will not push this oil back, but if that happens, they have the fail safe mechanism ready to go where they are drilling that relief well about a week from now where they will intersect that bp well and then begin filling it up with cement. a huge cement stopper to end the threat once and for all, and the procedure will have the same effect in killing the well, but because of the caution they have instituteded in proceeding with killing this well, they say it is not going to be done until that relief well is finished, and they have that cement plug in place. >> we will keep our fingers ...

Yesterday. we've been watching this not only with the cameras that many of you across the nation have been seeing but also with a variety of gauges under water. you also have a team of underwater robots that have been keeping a sharp eye on this as well. remember, t.j., this is going to either be a temporary cap that's going to hold the oil back, or they can actually use the valves in the top of the cap that would send it all the way up to the surface some 5,000 feet in a variety of container ships that can bring the oil back to the gulf. but this is temporary. the way you will stop this is no...

And our standard size is a square foot and a square foot of this mat will absorb a quarter of oil in less than two minutes, you wring it out sell the wringer with it and wring it out and recover 200 quarters of oil, which is 50 gallons, with the same product. >> recover the oil. >> recover. >> and actually use the oil. >> get the oil back, this doesn't pick up 1% water. >> good grief, look at that. [applause]. >> wow. >> and there's nothing in there, but hair. >> nothing in there, but hair, we have a floattation device, a thin piece of polypropylenpol. it picked up virtually-- >> it runs throu...

Some are less than certain. 15 days since the bp rig exploded and killed ten workers. 200,000 gallons of oil continues to leave by conservative estimates every day. they're bringing a containment system to the trouble spot. they drop it down and as trace gallagher described, it's like a huge coffee cup over a volcano of oil as it was described by bill nelson. it's a dome designed to trap the oil and they stick a hose in. from the hose they pump the oil out before it spreads into the water. it's more than a mile deep. these domes have never been tried at this depth. if it works, bp executives s...