[Vendome]

Studies indicate and Experts say....

Blah, blah, blah.

F-ing liars through obfuscation, ommission and deception.

The damn thing is broke.

Like I told another poster 5 or 6 weeks ago, the casing likely fractured below the surface and was eroded by rock, sand and other debris through some 87 days of spewing detris.

In this day and age, if they are expecting a certain PSI it should be off by no more than 3+/-.

Otherwise the lofty experts at BP and the government should be hauled into court and charged with shear stupidity.

Instead, the reading is currently some 17-25% at variance with expectations?

There is a leak and the White House knows it, maybe. They are on vacation, again.

[HushTX]

My theory of what actually happened can be clearly seen at 0:50.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa7ck5mcd1o

Jokes aside, who actually thinks is the last we'll hear of this mess?

And my wife, who works for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, mentioned that the President might have violated federal law in his handling of the oil spill. Apparently there is a provision in the Oil Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 that requires the federal government to handle any such crisis. It cannot be passed off to another party, even the owner of the rig. She is looking through to find the exact provision so I can post it, but given that she is an anti-Obama, conservative who works for an environmental agency I'm inclined to trust her judgment on these things.

That and I don't want to read the Act.

[Palladin]

Time to call Barack back to D>C> and put another “hex” on his vacations.

BOO-Hoo-Hoo-Hoo-HA!

[UCANSEE2]

There is a leak and the White House knows it, maybe.

I had read an article that stated The White House was appraised of problems with a 'leak' from the sea floor, back in FEBRUARY.

[catfish1957]

I was thinking the same as you. Then I thought (and I am not a geologist or physicist). If you inflate a baloon (resevoir an anlogogy), and release a certain percentage of air, the resultant pressure of the baloon would be reduced once some of that volume is lost.

Maybe I am looking at this too simplistic, but it seems plausible to me.