[Dr. Thorne]

According to oil expert Matt Simmons, the oil is a "submerged lake of oil [which] has grown larger than the size of Washington state and is approximately 500 feet thick" Simmons' Take on the Oil Spill in the Gulf

Simmons described the real blowout as an open hole gushing 120,000 barrels of toxic crude every day below the surface of the Gulf six or seven miles away from the riser. And BP is ignoring it, he said.

"What you are seeing on television, what BP is saying about relief wells . . . that's a total ruse," said Simmons.

[deport]

Matt Simmons makes little sense at all to me. 120,000 bbls of crude flowing for the past 90 days wouldn’t fill a cube 400’ X 400’ X 400’. That’s 1/3 larger than the length of a football field.

And he’s talking 500’ thick covering an area the size of the state of WA.