Gulf Coast residents battle to clean up oil spill

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Gulf Coast residents battle to clean up oil spill

Louisiana (Reuters) - Residents of the Gulf Coast battled to save their beaches on Saturday as tar balls washed ashore at Panama City, the most easterly point in Florida where oil has been found from BP Plc's ruptured deep-sea well.

BP also restarted its effort to siphon oil spewing from the well in the Gulf of Mexico after the system was shut down for 10 hours to fix a problem with its fire-prevention equipment and to let a storm pass.

To try to minimize the leak's impact, the British energy giant is containing some of the oil as it gushes from well on the sea floor. The system has been "building up to stable rates since" it was restarted, BP said in a statement. A second siphoning system is also running.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1416392020100619

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1. "We are soo SORRY they are not at the Yacht races with us & Tony" - RepubliCorporatististas

"And we do soooo wish these noisy Gulf proles would just STFU and stop disturbing our Beautiful Minds while we kick back at the Yacht Races. Sneer. Smirk.

"Remember our classique Republicon Homelander slogan: a rising tide lifts all yachts. Smirk."

- Tony Hayward (R) and RepubliCorporatista Brown Nosers