http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/20/94581/low-estimate-of-oil-spills-size.html
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/18/94415/bps-secrecy-keep-facts-on-gulf.html
"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 "
It’s pretty easy to figure out. Take the cross-sectional area of the pipe and multiply it by the exit velocity of the oil (which can be estimated from the video footing) and you’ve got the volume of oil per unit time exiting the hole. Convert to units of choice as needed. There shouldn’t be a variation of a factor of nearly 20 in the estimates. Maybe a factor of 2 or 3, worst case.
Oh good grief...you think obama gives a tinker’s damn about BP’s legal exposure? BP’s exposure will be based on actual and punitive damages, not some fantasy dreamed up by some ambulance chaser. People like to make outlandish claims (like the lawyers) in order to line their own pockets...obama has no reason to protect BP (a British Company.)
What a bunch of crap! There is NO WAY that anyone can make any kind of estimate with any degree of accuracy base on video footage. It's like looking at a fire hose squirting water and making a wild assed guess at how much is coming out.
In few words... you bet your ass they are hiding the extent and magnitude of the Spill. Furthermore they are hiding just how bad it can get.
When the submersibles are reporting “volcanoes” of oil.... that HAS to be HUGE. Volcanoes do not come in small sizes.
I forgot to mention, there is talk of Nationalizing BP’s holdings in the gulf of Mexico to pay for the damages. Google BP and Nationalization and that brings up a lot of chatter.
I think they are hiding the possibilities until it becomes impossible to hide. THEN they will ramp it up into Rham’s “Crisis” level and use it as justification in Nationalizing BP. Shoot they did it with GM, don’t think they won’t do it here as well, constitutional or not.
From the way this has been handled, by Obama and BP, I have one observation: they both have ‘something’ to hide and it’s probably the same thing.
Early on there was speculation that a North Korean suicide submersible, formerly in Cuba, detonated itself over the sea floor-bottom well and caused the destruction we see today.
Two things not frequently mentioned: if the above is true then BP would never receive insurance payments due to “act of war” clauses; Obama would do everything possible to cover-up an act of war by North Korea against the U.S.A.
-PJ