There, fixed it.
My best guess is that the cap was designed for the 9000 number and they're pretty happy with the true numbers.
He is sayong of course tht the wellisn’t leaking, not that there is any interity, either at BP or in Washington.
Something nobody is talking about...the fact that oil is spewing out of that well at 100,000 barrels a day. THAT’S A LOT OF OIL! What if the Gulf at 5,000 feet below sea level has enough oil to last us for another 200 years?
Pressure readings after 41 hours were 6,745 pounds per square inch and rising slowly, Wells said, below the 7,500 psi that would have reassured scientists the well was not leaking. ...
What worries her most about the current spill are the unknown effects of the dispersant chemicals used to break up oil into small droplets that sink into the water column. “If they put dispersants into any body of water without the presence of oil, people would be up in arms about the release of such toxic substances,” she says. “But because they are being applied in the name of remediation, people stand by and say it’s OK. But it isn’t OK at all; it’s making the Gulf a big experiment with no baseline to judge the real consequences.”
Federal government biologists who approved the use of dispersants say the chemicals are the lesser of two evils: they are toxic to some extent, but they keep the oil from reaching sensitive wetland habitat along the coast. I ask Earle about this but, aside from the limited use of dispersants to protect specific marshes from approaching slicks, she will have none of it.
“Deploying dispersants at the well head and on the surface many miles from shore is shockingly irresponsible,” she says. “It means you are taking oil that could be collected on the surface and [causing] it to go where it is impossible to recover. Life in the water column is exposed to the chemicals from the surface... and it’s killing all the way.”
On July 8, 2010, the Associated Press reported that U.S. Reps. Barney Frank and John Tierney stated publicly that Dr. Lubchenco should resign, and Frank said he intends to bring his request to the White House. Frank and Tierney represent New Bedford and Gloucester, Massachusetts respectively, New England’s biggest fishing ports. The two Democrats took the unusual step of calling for a senior appointee of a President of their own party to resign, saying she’s failed their region’s struggling fishermen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Lubchenco