Almost no oil recovered from sand berms - FoxNews.com

Almost no oil recovered from sand berms - FoxNews.com: "The government has said that much of the crude that spewed from BP's well following the April 20 rig explosion was skimmed, burned, collected or dispersed. E-mails, internal reports and a log of oil sightings obtained by AP confirm that very little of the estimated 200 million gallons that gushed from the bottom of the sea has been seen on or recovered from the berms."

Hindsight is 20/20. At the time, was it a reasonable precaution given the uncertainty?