[frithguild]

Exactly how much oil naturally seeps out of the seafloor is unknown, and most estimates are very crude because there has never been a proper global survey made for the public record. Researchers identified the natural seepage rate as a critical unanswered question when the National Academy of Sciences compiled its third Oil in the Sea report in 2003.

Nature's salad dressing...

[GWMcClintock]

“Nature’s salad dressing...”

Only if large deposits of vinegar are also located! :)

[bt_dooftlook]

It's easy to be flip about this unfolding catastrophe, sitting there in your pajamas in front of the computer.

Think about it, though: How many trillions of dollars will need to be spent to develop and deploy the technology to seal the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico, which I must point out is next to Texas, from where the Bushes hail? Coincidence? Hmph - just another failure that this administration will need to clean up, so a little less smugness, please, thank-you-very-much.

;)