BP mess will take years to clean up

As more news becomes available about the many failed attempts to stop the oil from flowing, we get news from the Coast Guard that:

But the big problem the Coast Guard is facing is the intricacy of cleaning up oil that has broken into so many patches across the surface of the sea and spreading out in so many different directions. That will require many more vessels armed with skimmers and more booms to block the oil from reaching the shore.

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