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In this story has the difference between refined oil and this type been factored into the equation?

This doom scenario seems extreme?

There is a trillion million billion times more hyperbole in this “news” article than has ever been seen in the history of the universe.

Speculation of hurricanes spreading the misery is overwrought, IMHO.

Hurricanes are circular in motion, which would turn the Gulf into a thick mess of froth; however, that froth may be the necessary "aeration" with ocean water (and air) to eventually dissipate the oil.

I am sure Obama will get right on this ... after his state dinner... and after he appoints a commission to study the issue and release a report in a few months.

Obama = Epic Fail

So oil is man made if its an unnatural disaster.

If this is true, there must by an ungodly amount of oil left on this earth and nobody wants us to know! I already know there is enough for 100’s of years if not more but the gov doesn’t want to let us know as to keep a boot on our throats!

“This is - without question - the worst unnatural disaster in the history of our planet. The results can be nothing short of annihilation of every living thing in the path of this nightmarish cataclysm. There is simply too much oil out there already for the outcome to be anything less.”

Hyperbole squared.

No numbers at the article. Hmmm. Sure, it can easily be worse as 'spills' go than the Exxon Valdez. The Valdez was a boat wreck, the cargo was oil, and the quantity limited.

This isn't a 'spill' so much as an uncontrolled well, a blowout.

They're working on getting the well under control.

remember what palin said about the bp head. She know him personally and that she had to verify everything that the oil company said. It doesn’t match reality

"Obama was top recipient of BP-related dollars in 2008
Washington (CNN) -- As petroleum giant BP comes under congressional scrutiny
as its ruptured oil rig pumps thousands of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico,
its political contributions are being scrutinized, too.
The top recipient of BP-related donations during the 2008 presidential election was Barack Obama,
who collected $71,000, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics."

"Obama biggest recipient of BP cash
BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million
to federal candidates over the past 20 years,
with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama
"

"U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study
The Interior Department exempted BP's calamitous Gulf of Mexico
drilling operation from a detailed environmental impact analysis last year.."

"Obama admin exempted BP’s Gulf drilling from environmental impact study
Obama was the top recipient of donations from BP in 2008,
... He let BP’s gulf drilling be exempt from an environmental study last year.
The decision by the department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) to give BP’s lease at Deepwater Horizon a “categorical exclusion”
from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on April 6, 2009 —
and BP’s lobbying efforts just 11 days before the explosion"

"The Cover-up: BP's Crude Politics and the Looming Environmental Mega-Disaster
WMR has been informed by sources in the US Army Corps of Engineers,
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and Florida Department of Environmental Protection
that the Obama White House and British Petroleum (BP), which pumped $71,000 into Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign
more than John McCain or Hillary Clinton,
are covering up the magnitude of the volcanic-level oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
and working together to limit BP's liability for damage caused by what can be called a "mega-disaster."

"Obama sheltered BP's Deepwater Horizon rig from regulatory requirement
Last year the Obama administration granted oil giant BP a special exemption
from a legal requirement that it produce a detailed environmental impact study
on the possible effects of its Deepwater Horizon drilling operation in the Gulf of Mexico,
Federal documents show that the Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) gave BP a "categorical exclusion" on April 6, 2009 "

"Red Flags Were Ignored Aboard Doomed Rig
Managers at oil giant BP PLC decided to forge ahead in finishing work
on the doomed Deepwater Horizon rig
despite some tests suggesting that highly combustible gas had seeped into the well"

"US allowed drilling 'without required permits'
Oil spill scandal: an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico,
with a complaint claims the Department of Interior has approved
over 300 drilling operations,
three large lease sales and over 100 seismic surveys
without the required permits
The approvals by the Minerals Management Service (MMS) included greenlighting
the well drilled by the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded on April 20"

"U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits
The federal Minerals Management Service gave permission to BP and dozens of other oil companies
to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without first getting required permits "

Rush said the CEO of BP is a certified geologist. Most of the oil is being emulsified in the waters.

According to an MSBNC report today

Nuff said

This well should have been demolished with explosives weeks ago. Instead of rescuing the well it should have been permanently sealed with explosives. Drilled down three hundred feet and detonated. Even a few shaped charges collapsing the well from 2,3,4 directions

O’Biden is milking this oil derrick crisis.. for all its worth..

20 times larger than the Exxon Valdez would not be half as big as the previous largest oil spill from the Iraq withdraw from Kuwait.

Anyone can downplay this as much as they want to but there is somewhere in the range of 50,000 barrels of oil daily flowing into the Gulf.

It has made its way into the Gulf Stream (first time in my life I have heard it referred to as the “current loop”) where it will devastate beaches and reefs around Cuba and the Florida keys and then end up near Iceland on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

We best hope they figure out how to get it stopped before August. The Russians are concerned enough about it that they are suggesting that a bore hole be put down next to the well and detonate a small nuclear weapon in it to crush the well off and stop the flow, a technique they say they have used 5 time in the past to stop out of control wells.

Zero and his thugs are running cover for BP, there is no telling what the real truth is. He could care less because he is out to destroy the country anyway

This is not your run of the mill oil spill.

The results can be nothing short of annihilation of every living thing in the path of this nightmarish cataclysm.

According to this guy’s figures, there has been about 200,000,000 (200 million) gallons spilled into the gulf. One cubic foot will contain 7.5 gallons of fluid. One acre of land filled to the depth of one foot (i.e., one acre-foot) will contain 325,000 gallons of fluid. Therefore, all the oil spilled thus far would fit on 615 acres of land filled to a depth of one foot. This is less than one square mile (640 acres).

The gulf covers 615,000 square miles.

The well site is over 5,000 feet down.

A one-acre column of water 5,000 feet deep could contain 1.6 billion gallons of oil.

Of course, the oil is going to spread way beyond, but the gulf is a big place, and this is a very, very small fraction of the total contents.

Does anyone know the spill rate/volume of the Mexico Premex event in the Gulf of Mexico back in I believe the 80s or maybe the 70s? It was less severe in amounts I believe.