This is looking pretty grim:
THE Gulf of Mexico oil spill may be growing five times faster than previously estimated and is in danger of accelerating out of control, it was claimed yesterday.
Experts said satellite data indicated the oil was gushing from BP’s sunken Deepwater Horizon rig at 25,000 barrels a day. Previous estimates had put the leak at 5,000 barrels a day.
Professor Ian MacDonald, an ocean specialist at Florida State University, said the new estimate suggested the leak had already spread 9m gallons of heavy crude oil across the Gulf. This compares with 11m that leaked from the Exxon Valdez tanker when it hit a reef off Alaska in 1989.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said deteriorating conditions on the sea bed may result in an even greater flow of 50,000 barrels a day, sufficient to produce one of America’s worst ecological disasters.
This looks like it will a big hit on people, on the economy and on the environment. And, folks, it does look like the Obama Administration has flubbed it pretty badly.
These are the liberals – the save-the-Earth tree huggers! Aren’t they supposed to be extra sensitive to these threats? I guess there wasn’t a fund raising angle nor a means to slander the TEA Party, and thus this passed under the radar until it got very late in the game.
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