Remember Bobby Jindal's idiotic proposal to build sand berms to stop the flow of oil from BP's leaking well? Well, here's how badly it worked:
So far, the berms have captured only 1,000 barrels of oil, according to official estimates, compared with the nearly five million barrels believed to have spewed from the BP well over all. By contrast, more than 800,000 barrels of oil were captured by BP at the wellhead, and roughly 270,000 barrels of oil were burned off by Coast Guard vessels offshore. Skimming operations, meanwhile, recovered at least 34 million gallons of oil-water mixture.
The cost of Bobby's dumb idea? $240 million so far with $120 million more to go. That is a cost of $360,000 per barrel of oil! Talk about government waste! I'll guarantee you this: before this thing is done, we're going to find out that Bobby's idiotic idea actually ended up lining the pockets of one of his biggest political contributors.