Next few days are crucial in capping spill

"With a quick solution ominously uncertain, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is on track to become an unprecedented economic and environmental disaster with millions of gallons of oil destroying an ecosystem as well as a way of life.
Miami Herald 5/12/2010

"We don't want a drop of oil to hit our coast. But we know it's much, much better for us -- easier for us -- to clean up the beach areas, the barrier islands. It would be a lot more complicated to try to clean up this oil once it gets into our interior wetlands.''
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal