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How is BP responding to this calamity? ABC has assigned 20/20 anchor Chris Cuomo as its corporate watchdog. He checked on whether the firm is providing enough containment booms and hiring enough local fishermen as oil skimmers. CBS' Kelly Cobiella updated us on BP's vetting of the 10,000-or-so ideas for containment and clean-up submitted to BP's suggestion box. Engineers are currently testing the feasibility of 250 of them. "Remember those booms made of hair?" Cobiella reminded us. "Well, they do soak up the oil but, BP says, they also sink."
CBS' Ben Tracy alerted us to expect a public relations blitz from the oil conglomerate. He quoted BP's promise in a newspaper advertising campaign: "We will continue working for as long as it takes and our efforts will not come at any cost to taxpayers." He warned us that TV ads are next. Meanwhile a boycott of BP gasoline filling stations is being organized on a Facebook page with 300K followers. There are almost 12,000 stations nationwide, Tracy told us, "but BP actually owns a small fraction of them; most are owned by small business owners who then sell BP gas."
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