What is really killing the Gulf from the gusher:

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Now an immense amount of fossil-fuel gasses are being released into the ocean at the oil leak site.

How much gas is being released?

A BP executive stated that they were removing 3000:1 gas to oil at the well before the explosion. (thats 3000 barrels of gas for every barrel of oil) The amount of oil leaking into the gulf is 25,000 to 70,000 barrels.

at 3000:1 this would mean 75 - 210 million barrels of gas per day being released.

There is 5.64 cubic feet of gas per barrel.

That would mean there is 13.3 to 37.2 million cubic feet of gas being released each day.

(note: this is at standard atmospheric temp and pressure. At the ocean floor and 2,400 pounds per square inch, this gas is compressed by a factor of of over 1000 and will expand as it rises. So, in the video coming out of the pipe it looks like 75,000 to 210,000 barrels of gas per day.

you see, what happens when methane is released into the gulf? It goes into solution. There, in the deep ocean, it oxidizes, stripping the ocean of oxygen and forming carbon dioxide and water.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/5/14/866430/-OilpacalypseGas-Leak-Creating-a-Deep-Water-Dead-Zone

The oil is getting all the attention. The natural gas being released is enormous. The reservoir of gas could be in the trillions of cubic feet.

[Scuba]

1. And on that cheery note...

...Lieberman and Kerry propose kickbacks, er incentives, for more offshore drilling.

We're all gonna die, but I was hopoing we wouldn't all die at once!