Please be advised that I don't have television, don't take a newspaper, and don't have time to pore over info on the web to find an answer. I am just wondering about some of the news bites I've heard on the radio when I'm driving, and don't understand what I'm hearing.

Short, simple explanations are best for this ADD-afflicted reader.

I have heard that there are "over a hundred" organic solutions that could be applied to the oil that would "eat it up" (I think that's what they meant), like breaking down undesirable components when composting into more desirable (or at least less undesirable) individual ingredients.

Then I hear that BP is applying a 'dispersing agent'.

The Flow Rate Technical Group claims that the rate of flow is somewhere between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels (42 gals each) of crude oil per day, 1.5 to 2.5 million gallons per day, every day for the last 78 days, with no real end in sight.

I don't understand about this dispersing agent. What good does it do to disperse it? Does BP think that our world's garbage dump (aka called Earth's oceans) will be better off with it thinned out and spread all over the world?

Please explain.

Sue