Cleanup to Take Years, says Thad of the many ribbons

Old Thad admitted today that the coastguard had never anticipated that oil would spread across such a broad area and break up into hundreds of thousands of patches as the current spill has done. “We’re no longer dealing with a monolithic spill,” Ad. Thad proclaimed. "We’re dealing with an aggregation of hundreds of thousands of patches of oil. And we need to adapt to meet that threat.”

Allen was on hand at the White House today to brief President Obama directly on the latest regarding the disaster and how to contain the spread of the oil. Afterwards, Obama reiterated the message that Allen offered in the spirit of transparency: The environmental nightmare in the Gulf is going to be around for a long, long time. “Even if we are successful in containing some or much of this oil, we are not going to get this problem completely solved until we actually have the relief well completed. And that is going to take a couple more months,” Obama told reporters.“We also know that there’s already a lot of oil that’s been released, and that there is going to be more oil released no matter how successful this containment effort is,” the President added.

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