Larry King asks Obama "what if
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BobbiStorm on 6/3/2010, 9:50 pm
Interesting to read his response from the transcripts of the CNN interview...
Think it is interesting that this has to be the biggest question being asked right now re the oil spill..
I have had more people ask me about Oil Rain and the local news channel in North Carolina said it "could" be Early July when the Oil washes up on the Cape Hatteras Beaches... IF... it gets caught in the Loop Current.
So many "IFs" ... this hurricane season... time will tell sooner rather than later
http://www.allyourtv.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1256:complete-transcript-president-obama-on-larry-king-live&catid=1:latest-news
One request... keep this on the oil and the currents and the science... wondering just who he spoke to regarding this answer.... worrying on tropical storms more than hurricanes..
KING: Have the scientists discussed, what about a hurricane?
OBAMA: I had a Situation Room meeting about a week and a half ago, where we got the report that this could be a more severe than normal hurricane season. I asked, well, how does a potential oil spill interact with a hurricane? It turns out that -- now these are all estimations and probabilities -- it turns out that a big, powerful hurricane, ironically is probably less damaging with respect to the oil spill because it just disperses everything and the oil breaks up and degrades more quickly.
It's those tropical storms and tides that would just wash stuff into the marshes that would really be an ecological disaster. But, look, We've got a couple of tasks right now. Number one, BP has to shut down this well. The only guarantee to shut down is the relief well and that's going to take a couple of months. In the meantime we hope that by cutting the riser, putting a cap on this thing, they can funnel up the oil and that will help.
In the meantime we've still got all these barrels of oil that are sloshing around in the Gulf. They move with the currents, we don't always know where they are. But what we can do is make sure that our response doesn't hold anything back. That we put everything we've got into Louisiana, which has been hardest hit so far, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. |
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