[Balding_Eagle]

42,000 gallons? That’s nothing. Four semiloads.

[Eagles6]

No doubt “commander zero” and “deadfish” won’t let this crisis go to waste.

[tcrlaf]

Wow!! 158,000 Liters is SO much more scarier than less than 1,000 barrels, isn’t it???

[Krankor]

Could all the oil in the Earth eventually leak out this hole?

[StormEye]

"... prompting further concerns of damage to Louisiana's fragile ecosystem, already stressed by hurricanes and coastal erosion."

Oh,the Humanity! This is terrible. Mother Earth is hurting.
LOL!

[crz]

They said today that the well head is at about the 5 thousand foot level? If so, they got a real problem.

[DoughtyOne]

What the hell to believe? One day it’s 300 thousand gallons plus. The next day it’s no oil. The day after than we’re up to 145 thousands gallons per day.

One can only guess what the total will be every day this next week. Sheesh!

[WilliamofCarmichael]

http://geology.com/news/2007/enormous-oil-seepage-in-the-gulf-of-mexico.shtml

"The Gulf of Mexico is an area where such natural seepage occurs at a very high rate. Of the 200,000 metric tons of oil seepage that is thought to occur each year, about 150,000 metric tons escapes from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico."

150,000 / 365 = 411 metric tons a day

411 * 2,205 pounds per metric ton = 906,255 pounds

At 7 pounds per gallon: 906,255 pounds / 7 = 129,465 gallons a day naturally.

Ho hum.

[VeniVidiVici]

Hmmm. Wonder how they can distinguish this so far from the 700,000 gallons of diesel onboard the platform?

[a real Sheila]

Have they ever determined the cause of the explosion?
These days I’m constantly suspicious of
1. Terrorism
2. Enviro-whackos

THe timing of this, right around cap and trade legislation is just as suspicious as the timing of the lawsuit against Goldman Sachs and the financial regulation bill.