[WestTexasWend]

More on Fibertect and a video demonstration here:

http://today.ttu.edu/2010/05/cotton-could-serve-as-cleanup-medium-for-oil-spill/

[annelizly]

http://www.wimp.com/solutionoil/

Check out this video. I believe its just as good if not a better idea as they use hay/grass which doesn’t sink and can be burned afterwards. its perfect! Its cheap, in ready supply and will be easy to clean up!

American inginuity at its finest!

[outofstyle]

Oh good. Is this the same environmentally safe material the EPA approved for the space shuttle that fell off on launch & brought down the shuttle?

[Erik Latranyi]

It took gov’t six weeks to approve this possible solution.....

[WhatNot]

Does anyone know why the oil eating microbes process is not being used?

[Rebelbase]

Didn’t they use Pampers in cleaning up the Exxon Valdez?

[Sacajaweau]

Looks like the wipie has a carbon core....would that be charcoal??

[anymouse]

Obviously a man is in charge of the oil spill otherwise a woman would have already started using the following:

Then again the could just hire this guy. ;)

"Soaks up 20 times it's weight in liquid. It's made by Germans. You know Germans always make great stuff."

Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.

[Redbob]

"arry Hobbs, the company's vice president of manufacturing, said the plant has the capacity to immediately begin churning out 10 million pounds of the material..."

Over what time period?
A day? A week? A month?
10 years?