I've said this since this began: Gulf Geyser10x's worse; Exxon Valdez EVERY 4 DAYS!

[jus_the_facts]

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/9u7kN2/rawstory.com/rs/2010/0513/gulf-oil-gusher-ten-times-worse-prior-estimates//r:t

So this is why BP's release of video showing the Gulf oil gusher was mysteriously delayed.

According to a scientific analysis of footage from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, National Public Radio is claiming the growing ecological disaster is actually ten times worse than previously estimated, saying the rushing torrent of oil pouring into the ocean is equivalent to one Exxon-Valdez spill every four days.

That's more than 70,000 barrels a day -- when the U.S. Coast Guard had placed the figure at a seemingly modest 5,000 barrels a day.

Until this point in human history, the Exxon-Valdez disaster was the worst oil spill ever, with nearly 11 million gallons of crude lost to the murky depths.

The Deepwater Horizon well has been jetting oil unabated for just short of one month at time of this writing. Already, the pollution exceeds a scale which most individual humans can fully grasp.

[aquart]

1. I so wish you'd been wrong.

[LiberalLoner]

3. Me too. This is so fucking awful. n/t

[jus_the_facts]

4. I so wish I was too ....and that they'd been able to *fix* this by now...

....unfortunately for all of us and the environment...my prediction was too close. :evilfrown:

[LakeSamish706]

2. I was under the understanding that it was more like 210,000 barrels per day.

And I wouldn't call that a spill, but more like a gusher and a disaster for certain.

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. 5,000 barrels = 210,000 gallons

I keep making the same mistake.

[LakeSamish706]

7. Ok, got it... Thanks for the info.. n/t

[jus_the_facts]

10. Two articles I posted previously......

May 2nd from the AP...
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/bp_chairman_says_dome_to_be_de.html

In an exploration plan and environmental impact analysis filed with the federal government in February 2009, BP said it had the capability to handle a "worst-case scenario" at the site, which the document described as a leak of 162,000 barrels per day from an uncontrolled blowout -- 6.8 million gallons each day.

May 4th from the NYTimes...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/us/05spill.html?ref=us


Who really knows just how bad it is...the only people who can say for sure are to blame...haven't and never will get a straight answer from them. x(

[LakeSamish706]

11. This really is sad. I really have a hard time with the survival of anything on this planet with

something as devastating as this disaster.

[jus_the_facts]

13. Yep... the repercussions are unfathomable. n/t

[Bryn]

5. Where the hell is the cavalry?

It's gushing, gushing, gushing yet Oil people and Politicians are playing games. This is serious and an emergency! It is affecting all of us. BP is trying to get that oil rather than destroy it so they're busy looking for ways to stop the gushing yet still get oil. Doh!

[LakeSamish706]

9. Go figure huh, money talks and it doesn't seem like anyone is going to hold them accountable.

Damn, that has a familiar ring to it!

[Odin2005]

8. My god, my god...

:cry:

[jus_the_facts]

12. Have mercy....

:cry:

[Newest Reality]

14. There is even a potential for an extinction event

if this oil volcano continues to spew unabated for a long period of time. That oil can make its way into the Gulf Stream Currents and move around Florida and up around the East Coast ... and beyond. At what point can we call this an unprecedented ecological disaster? Time will tell.

I don't know if we have any idea or estimates of how much it will dilute/disperse and what toxicity levels will develop down the line.

[jus_the_facts]

19. That has also been my fear all along..

....it is most definitely an unprecedented ecological disaster already...time will tell indeed.

[flamingdem]

21. Too bad we are not taught to think of those who will follow beyond immediate family nt

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

15. the real fix would hurt BP profits

I've read that the measures needed to stop the gusher would cost BP too much in profits,
and would destroy the oil well.

So really they are trying to save the oil well, not the Gulf.

[Odin2005]

24. Exactly!

The bastards are trying to save the damn oil well!

[donheld]

16. As I said before this story has the potential to be the biggest story of our lives

If this continues the entire Gulf and it's eco-system will die. I can't even begin to imagine the impact that will have.

[Angry Dragon]

17. As the oceans begin to die

the oil companies sit and point fingers at each other and have no idea how to stop it short of using a nuke on it and then they still have the cleanup

[bobthedrummer]

18. k

[flamingdem]

20. Whatever happens we have to keep this in the news here and everywhere nt

[piedmont]

22. Exxon Valdez was not the worst spill in history. It's not even in the top 30.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_spills

[Lost4words]

23. oh well that changes everything,...........