Well, the greatest nightmare, with this storm approaching, is that it takes this oil on the surface of the Gulf and blows it over the barrier islands into the bays and the estuaries.

I want to show the Senate Pensacola Beach yesterday. It has hit us full force. That white is the natural sugary sand of the northwest Florida beaches. You can see as far as the eye can see down to the beach. It is covered with this black…

No. And saying something like that, what, are you going to reduce it from 10 days lost to seven days? You're still going to have 420,000 barrels have gushed unobstructed into the Gulf.

The Incident Command has known that they have Navy skimmers in ports, over 40 around the country. But only six have been requested.

Not yet. But I expect to, because we need to preposition a surge capability that, when they would have to move out of the way of the storm, and before they could get back attached, all that extra oil going into the Gulf, we need extra…

Congress is ready to crackdown on the government's buddy-buddy relationship with the oil industry.

I am sad to report to you that as of this moment, one of the remote operating vehicles has bumped into that top hat process that was funneling the oil off of the big structure, the blowout preventer from the pipe, the riser pipe, with the…

It's shown the public how little control our drilling regulators exercised over Big Oil.

As we grapple with the results of loosely regulated drilling, we must look ahead to make sure a catastrophe like the Deepwater Horizon spill never happens again.

the oil is relentlessly moving east in the Gulf of Mexico. A week and a half ago it hit Perdido Pass. That is in Perdido Bay. A week ago it hit Pensacola Pass. It is in Pensacola Bay. You ought to see what it looks like. There are tar…

So you feel reasonably confident that you have the facilities and the skills in order to handle this reduction?

Do we think the Russians will do likewise over 7 years?