Tom Carper actually said...

"So oil is dispersed in larger pieces of the oil are dispersed, being much smaller, the microbes have an easier opportunity to glom on and go to lunch on the oil."

"So when people ask me saying, what happened to all this oil, this huge amount of oil that came out of the bottom of the Gulf, and now it seems to be going away, some of it has evaporated?"

"I understand the EPA has been researching the effects of dispersants in a subsurface environment."

"Thank you for all your responses and your testimony here."