...now they're saying the well was gushing well over 40K barrels/day before the cap. That's 2M gallons. An Exxon Valdez every 5 days.
Read about the Lakeview Gusher in 1910. It was spewing 18K barrels a day at first but grew to 90K at its peak and went on for 18 months. Did BP spend billilons to tap a reserve that would produce less than that? I doubt it...
If they told us the amount spilled was 6 gallons per day or 6M.. would it matter? I say no... and that was the plan all along. Release a less alarming figure to begin with and slowly eek it higher as the months went on. By now it's merely semantics.
Read about the Lakeview Gusher in 1910. It was spewing 18K barrels a day at first but grew to 90K at its peak and went on for 18 months. Did BP spend billilons to tap a reserve that would produce less than that? I doubt it...
If they told us the amount spilled was 6 gallons per day or 6M.. would it matter? I say no... and that was the plan all along. Release a less alarming figure to begin with and slowly eek it higher as the months went on. By now it's merely semantics.