US oil spill: BP 'recovering less oil' than estimated

[thewiseguy]

BP has said the amount of oil recovered from a leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well on Thursday was less than half an earlier estimate.

BP said it siphoned 2,200 barrels in the 24-hour period to midnight on Thursday, down from an estimate of 5,000 barrels earlier in the day.

The US government has formed a team to develop a more precise estimate of the amount of oil gushing from the well.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10139730.stm

:argh:

[Wilber_Stool]

1. Oh really. Imagine that...........n/t

[damntexdem]

2. It's gushing 5k barrels, we're recovering 5k barrels, it's still gushing. Oh, were recovering less.

LOL!

BP is just showing its usual level of competence.

[kwolf68]

3. A corporation has lied to us?

Now Ive seen it all. /sarcasm

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. They are fucking really shitty estimators.

Doesn't exactly inspire confidence in them, now does it? Good thing they are in charge of the labs testing the volatility of the effluent waste.

[kenny blankenship]

5. Rest assured: there must be a way to make this oil spill pay for itself. And BP will find it.

[Altoid_Cyclist]

6. Rhetorical question time.

Can the American people believe anything that these criminals say?

They have unleashed environmental hell through criminal acts and that is the only truth about BP that matters. Nothing that they say can be held out as the truth at this point.

[blindpig]

7. The other truth

Their only issue is the bottom line.

We must kill capitalism before it kills us.

[Altoid_Cyclist]

8. The way of the world has become a matter of the bottom line being all that matters.

The corporate mantra "I feel the need.......the need for greed!"

Apologies to "Top Gun" for paraphrasing the line.

At some point they should start listing corporate greed as an official cause of death when it is appropriate. Open them up to murder charges and prosecute them.