This is an unusual oil. It's very heavy and it's viscous.

It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China, ... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter.

Today's modest action starts the long march to start to reform the tax breaks as they relate to the oil industry, and limits these incentives to the smaller oil companies that actually need the help the most,

Generally, once a tar ball forms it remains at the bottom and is moved along at the bottom of the ocean by wave action,

It looks like the outer eastern islands of the Bahamas may feel its effects sometime tomorrow. It a small storm, highly concentrated.

It's just a big mass of thunderstorms.