So whats that? Half a Exxon-Valdez a day?
Not to mention the massive mess that Obama hasn't done anything about.
AND the eleven men who died. After the first couple of days, nothing much has been said about them.
If there isn't one, one could be hooked up at one of those BOP ports used in the kill operation.
Propaganda???? Never from a "member of the governemt"./s
"British Petroleum (BP) pumped $71,000 into Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign"
"White House chief tied to BP adviser"
"Top PR firm for BP tied to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel"
Agencies to Study Dispersant Use and Ecosystem Impacts of Dispersed Oil in the Gulf of Mexico"
2) The secret reasons for the $$$$$ to Obama ............. check
BP oil leak: Fallen Deepwater Horizon was tapping second largest oil deposit in the world"
3) Pres_ _ent Obama exempts BP from normal requirements ......... check
U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study (Obama let it happen)"
Gulf oil spill: BP has a long record of legal, ethical violations "
Federal Regulator Repeatedly Failed to Inspect Deepwater Horizon "
"U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study"
"Obama admin exempted BP's Gulf drilling from environmental impact study "
"Obama sheltered BP's Deepwater Horizon rig from regulatory requirement"
"Red Flags Were Ignored Aboard Doomed Rig "
"US allowed drilling 'without required permits"
"U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits"
4) Pres_ _ent Obama creates a dangerous, negligent environment before, during, and after the event ......... check
BP's new plan risks worsening oil spill"
Internal Documents Show Early Worries About Safety of Rig"
BP reports warning signs before gulf oil rig explosion"
"Heated Argument on Rig Hours Before Blast ( Deepwater Horizon oil spill )"
"Workers on doomed BP oil rig: Corners were cut to save money"
"BP Used Riskier Method to Seal Oil Well Before Blast"
"U.S. oil drilling regulator ignored experts' red flags on environmental risks"
5) Pres_ _ent Obama, BP, and the DNC begin the obstruction ......... check
“Coast Guard Logs Show Administration Knew Extent of Oil Spill within 24 Hours"
"There Was 'Nobody in Charge' (Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Fire)"
Limited Media Access to Oil Spill"
"McCarthy: Obama hasn't returned call of lawmaker representing district of rig!! "
"Obama sat on sand berm request 2 weeks, still no reply"
"Frustration over sand barriers boils in Louisiana as federal government offers few answers"
6) Pres_ _ent Obama, BP and the DNC begin the coverup ......... check
“BP well may be spewing 100,000 barrels a day”
BP's Photo Blockade of the Gulf Oil Spill"
BP buses in 400 for photo op with Obama
"BP shipped in workers for president's visit"
"Lab Chosen To Test Oil Spill Water & Animal Samples Has Ties To BP"
President Delays Oil Spill Recovery Efforts For San Francisco Fundraiser With Getty Oil Heirs"
7) The REAL DEAL: Pres_ _ent Obama displays utter incompetance (again) ......... check
"Louisianans take oil cleanup in own hands as frustration mounts."
"The President couldn't determine if MMS head Elizabeth Birnbaum was fired or she resigned."
"President Obama Returns to LA to Assess the Oil Crisis"
8) The REAL DEAL: Pres_ _ent Obama destroys America (again) ......... check
"Analysis: Could U.S. Lose 200 Rigs by the End of Summer? "
Leifer is an ICS Global Warming advocate.
http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/people/Bio.php?cat=RS&name_first=Ira&name_last=Leifer
http://www.bubbleology.com/BubbleologyFrame.html
" Allen said early Monday that BP had closed one of the four vents on the cap and would try to close the others to get more oil flowing to the containment vessel. However, Wells, the BP vice president, later in the day said that the company had changed its view about the need to close the vents.
At first glance, it seemed that closing the vents was necessary to maximize the amount of oil and gas that could be collected, but that didn’t prove to be the case, he said. Keeping some vents open gave the company more flexibility when it had to shut down temporarily during a storm, as it did during a thunderstorm Sunday, he said."
Watching the video is seems the "cap" is oscillating in it's height above the BOP as the spewage flow apparently surges.
100K barrels a day...frankly I doubt that number is accurate. Would seem like a simple calcuation, velocity through a whatever size pipe times a time period.
My sense is there is a bit of politics in this number.
If anything, 100,000 barrels a day shows how we NEED offshore drilling.
100K per day is 0.5% of total US daily demand - from one well! That’s a lot.
I’ll wait for someone from BP to tell us this. I stopped trusting Government officials years ago.
thanks for posting.
Deepwater Horizon well may be spewing what the company once-called its worst case scenario — 100,000 barrels a day>>>>>>
Probably true or a least 50,000 per day, plus at least two more months of this as relief wells get drilled. The Gulf coastal areas of Louisiana, Alabama. Mississippi, Florida, are screwed to a fair thee well. Jobs gone, tourism shot, fisheries and oyster beds off limits for 5 years or more. I think beaches will be sort of OK. They are the easiest to keep cleaning up as tar balls appear and BP will pay for it anyways.
It may be spewing ice cream and chocolate donuts............
I read last night that it could spew for 30 years before it is exhausted and if so and at that rate, that pretty much wraps it up for the Atlantic Ocean.
Never let a good crisis go to waste!
How do these asshats know anything? They’re just pulling numbers out of their butt.
Good thing Carl Sagan’s dead or we’d be hearing about “billyuns and billyuns” of barrels a day.
The only thing clear at this point is they have NO IDEA how much is flowing per day.
How much oil is gushing from the well has been the subject of heated debate for weeks, with independent scientists suggesting that as much as 95,000 barrels could be gushing into the Gulf of Mexico each day. For more than a month BP and the Obama administration placed the figure at 5,000 barrels a day.
On Monday, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the Obama administration’s point man on the unfolding disaster, said that the government and BP still don’t know how much oil is escaping. The “top hat” containment device captured 11,000 barrels of oil on Sunday, Allen said, and that BP was moving a second ship into position above the well to bring to 20,000 barrels the amount of crude that could be processed daily.
Allen also said that BP is moving a production platform with far greater capacity to the Gulf though that equipment may not be in place for several weeks.
“We just know that’s their capacity. We still haven’t established what the flow rate is,” he said. “That is the big unknown that we’re trying to hone in and get the exact numbers on.”
Even so, BP’s videos of the gusher showed black oil continuing to flow heavily from all around the wellhead as the crude leaks from around the cap’s edges.
A team of experts from government science agencies and universities estimated last week that at a minimum 12,000 to 25,000 barrels a day were flowing from the well, but the team declined to estimate an upper end for the flow because the information they received from BP was inadequate.
Leifer, who is described in the flow rate’s preliminary report released last week as a “world reknown researcher” who’s published more than 60 scientific articles, said BP still has not delivered the data that scientists need for an accurate appraisal of the spill’s size.
“We’re still waiting,” he said.
Fox just had this story on a few minutes ago.