Reply #4: He said a hurricane could be less damaging than a tropical storm, according to this: [View All]

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Obama told CNN's Larry King in an interview he had raised those concerns in a recent meeting at the White House on the oil spill.

"It turns out that -- now these are all estimations and probabilities -- it turns out that a big, powerful hurricane, ironically is probably less damaging with respect to the oil spill because it just disperses everything and the oil breaks up and degrades more quickly," Obama said, according to an advance transcript of the interview to be broadcast on Thursday night.

A bigger concern, he said, were less powerful tropical storms that would not break up the oil but wash it ashore and into ecologically fragile marshlands along the Gulf coast.

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