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Huckabee.com, click on the fox news feedback section, that's mike huckabee.com. well, he's a petroleum engineer with a degree in chemistry and specializes in oil wells and on friday, he met with officials at bp about ways to safely clean up the gulf. please welcome president of eli and associates, john, good to have you here today. thank you very much (applause) >> you actually met with some of the people from bp. tell me what did they say? are they listening now maybe to some of the kind of ideas we're going to show today? >> i believe so. they, and i might give you a little bit of background...

Difference between the feathers. this was one dipped in the oil. this is one without the oil. it's pretty amazing. and so, bill, this product, how much of the product do you have available you could offer on the gulf coast? >> we have 1.4 million tons. >> mike: tons. not pounds. tons. >> tons of proven reserves. >> mike: has anybody from b.p. called you? >> no. >> mike: john, this looks to me like this is an all hands on deck moment, where we're seeing a lot of different products. we still have a couple to show. but doesn't this make sense that we would bring everyone's idea to the gulf coast ...

And we're an asphalt paving contractor and we use this for erosion control and asphalt product when it rains washes off the road and this cleaned it up and how we came up with the idea. otis how long have you been doing this. >> all my life. 25 dn adds. >> this is fot something thought might work, you've seen it done. >> you've put the hay on top of the oil. >> put the hay on the oil and you're scooping it up. >> and lot of people have seen this tech demonstration on youtube, about ten million hits. has anybody called from bp and said bring sm hay down here. >> why not? >> no, sir. >> that doe...

You can contact me at mikehuckabee.com. click on the fox news feedback section. that's mikehuckabee.com. well, he is a petroleum engineer with a degree in chemistry and he specializes in oil wells and on friday he met with officials at b.p. about ways to safely clean up the gulf. please welcome president of the eli and associates, john eli. good to have you here today. [ applause ] thank you very much. you actually met with some of the people from b.p. tell me what did they say? are they listening now maybe to some of the ideas we're going to show today? >> i believe so. they and i might give ...

Hurt the wild life, it actually will take some of the toxic stuff out of the water and out of the oil. >> right. and it-- it makes the environment safe, if you put it on the open water and the bird comes in and he can land and it's been sitting there a little while. maybe he doesn't want to be there anymore, it's not a good place and he flies away. that's the idea. and so it hasn't been on there very long, but have another feather hear. in just a little while. >> mike: we don't have much little while to do. better put it in there. make it quick. >> mike: john, tell me as you're watching this, ...