huckabee.com, click on the fox news feedback section, that s mike huckabee.com. well, he s a petroleum engineer with a degree in chemistry and specializes in oil wells and on friday, he met with officials at bp about ways to safely clean up the gulf. please welcome president of eli and associates, john, good to have you here today. thank you very much (applause) you actually met with some of the people from bp. tell me what did they say? are they listening now maybe to some of the kind of ideas we re going to show today? i believe so. they, and i might give you a little bit of background quickly, i have an employee that works in their office, i ve worked with him a long time and i told him that i was going to be coming up here and they, allowed a bp to meet with me. turns out he was a close friend and basically gave me the latitude to say whatever i want today say. mike: so what do you want to say, john, tell us, come
difference between the feathers. this was one dipped in the oil. this is one without the oil. it s pretty amazing. and so, bill, this product, how much of the product do you have available you could offer on the gulf coast? we have 1.4 million tons. mike: tons. not pounds. tons. tons of proven reserves. mike: has anybody from b.p. called you? no. mike: john, this looks to me like this is an all hands on deck moment, where we re seeing a lot of different products. we still have a couple to show. but doesn t this make sense that we would bring everyone s idea to the gulf coast and deal with this? maybe there is not one thing that is the magic bullet but a lot of different bullets all of which have their own level of magic. i think what we are seeing here is a super example of american ingenuity. if we turn things over to people who have the experience and the knowledge and capability, they can solve the problem. mike: bill, i want to say thank you very much. great to have
and we re an asphalt paving contractor and we use this for erosion control and asphalt product when it rains washes off the road and this cleaned it up and how we came up with the idea. otis how long have you been doing this. all my life. 25 dn adds. this is fot something thought might work, you ve seen it done. you ve put the hay on top of the oil. put the hay on the oil and you re scooping it up. and lot of people have seen this tech demonstration on youtube, about ten million hits. has anybody called from bp and said bring sm hay down here. why not? no, sir. that doesn t make sense to me, this is simple. there any big environmental impact, john, from putting hay in the gulf then scooping it up. no, sir. otis what have you got this, it looks like a sham w wow. fabrics, this will be the sham wow that will get the oil
you can contact me at mikehuckabee.com. click on the fox news feedback section. that s mikehuckabee.com. well, he is a petroleum engineer with a degree in chemistry and he specializes in oil wells and on friday he met with officials at b.p. about ways to safely clean up the gulf. please welcome president of the eli and associates, john eli. good to have you here today. [ applause ] thank you very much. you actually met with some of the people from b.p. tell me what did they say? are they listening now maybe to some of the ideas we re going to show today? i believe so. they and i might give you just a little bit of background quickly. i have been an employee that works in their office, worked with them a long time. and i told them that i was going to be coming up here and they allowed b.p. to meet with me. turned out he was a close friend. basically, they gave me the latitude to say whatever i wanted to say. mike: what do you want to say, john?
hurt the wild life, it actually will take some of the toxic stuff out of the water and out of the oil. right. and it it makes the environment safe, if you put it on the open water and the bird comes in and he can land and it s been sitting there a little while. maybe he doesn t want to be there anymore, it s not a good place and he flies away. that s the idea. and so it hasn t been on there very long, but have another feather hear. in just a little while. mike: we don t have much little while to do. better put it in there. make it quick. mike: john, tell me as you re watching this, one feather soaked with oil, this doesn t look hardly touched at all. pretty impressive. so the idea is you can save so many animals, so many creatures in the environment. mike: let me see the feather here, i think a lot of people may not have seen it. if you see and look at the