Do you think the dispersants helped? I'm no expert (and yet I never let that stop me from opining...) and I've wondered if the dispersants were making the situation worse, the dispersants were more toxic than the oil, the dispersants were making it harder for the ships to do their clean-up work... you know the drill. What is your opinion? Were the dispersants a net positive?
Indeed. I think when the scientific history of this spill is written, one of the major conclusions will be that the sub-sea addition of dispersants directly into the leak at the wellhead drastically reduced overall damage and time for recovery.