“Not to make excuses for Obama, but what is he supposed to do? There is no solution to this. It won’t be solved until they get those relief wells finished, which will be a couple more months.”
My understanding is that there have been a number of suggestions based upon methods that were successful in largely cleaning up other massive oil spills, and the administration for whatever reason has not implemented these. (There are two separate pieces to this- the leak itself and the continuing spread of the oil.)
I have a feeling that Gulf oil, which is a heavy crude that’s full of waxy/tarry fractions that are heavier than water, wouldn’t be skimmable the way “light, sweet” Saudi crude is. This stuff is floating in as massive underwater clouds. I don’t even know if the booms can do much of anything.