"BP exec: Gulf oil leak may be larger than thought, now 5,000 barrels a day!"

[KansasVoter]

NEW ORLEANS — BP's Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles says more oil may be leaking from a Gulf of Mexico drilling site than first estimated.
Speaking Thursday on NBC's "Today," Suttles said the leak is more than the 1,000 barrels of day that was originally estimated last week after a deepwater rig exploded and burned off the coast of Louisiana.
He said it may be as much as a new estimate of 5,000 barrels a day that the government first provided late Wednesday.
Suttles said BP Plc and government scientists have to estimate the flow based on what reaches the surface because there is no way to measure the oil pouring out on the seabed.

[ShortnFiery]

1. Wow! Since Saturday we went from "no leak" to "1000 barrels" to "5000 barrels."

I now wonder if it's even worse that that given the M$M's horrific track record of distortion? :shrug:

[rocktivity]

2. TRANSLATION: "More oil is leaking from the drilling site

than BP originally admitted because it might hurt the chances of continuing U.S. offshore drilling."

Boiled frog, anyone?

:eyes:
rocktivity

[tekisui]

3. The pictures of the gulf on fire and the spill from space

should be used to show how incredibly stupid it is to expand these oil rigs in the ocean. Obama should be getting hammered with this.

[NJmaverick]

5. "Obama should be getting hammered"

Thus describes your self appointed mission in life.:eyes:

[tekisui]

6. Isn't he the one that recently annouced lifting the ban on

offshore oil development? :shrug:

Isn't he the one with the power to make these decisions? :shrug:

When he is wrong, he should be pressured to change. That is democracy.

[polichick]

4. So is the prez still keen on more offshore drilling? nt

[tekisui]

7. Without hesitation. The Administration is saying this does not

effect their decision.

[polichick]

8. Idiotic decision in the first place. nt