re: 88,000 gallons of crude in the gulf.

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In the grand scheme of things, is that a lot, just asking.

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It depends on how close to shore, but in general that is not a ton of oil. That's about 4-5 stock tanks full on a typical site in East Texas.

Most of that can be corralled with boom and then sucked up. The rest will get broken down by naturally occurring microbes or the ones sprayed on it with fertilizer.