Today's 'official estimate'? 35k-60k barrels a day

[Ruby the Liberal]

Linked by MSNBC: http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doc/2931/661583/

[golddigger]

1. Why is everyone surprised at this?

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. Surprised? No.

If anything, I am surprised any of these clowns involved with the effort think they have ANY credibility left.

I hold Thad Allen and Ken Salazar just above Tony Hayward on the credibility/honesty scale failure. At least he has an "excuse". Whats theirs?

[TexasObserver]

2. I've believed it's in the 70,000 barrels a day range since week two.

And I still think so.

Roughly almost a barrel a second, a barrel being 42 gallons.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. I Believe That the First Estimate Was 1,000 Barrels A Day nt

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. That was second. The first one was that there was no leak at all,

just tanks from the rig.

[City Lights]

6. They're pulling numbers out of Hayward's ass.

They have no fricking idea what they're doing.

[krispos42]

7. Each barrel is 9,702 cubic inches.

It's a cube about 21 inches on a side, the size of box a 17" computer CRT might come in.

So it's dumping between 7,278 and 12,477 cubic yards of crude per day.



A 2,000 square food home with 8-foot ceilings is 593 cubic yards.

So it's dumping enough oil to fill up between 12.27 and 21.04 average-size homes per day.


Somewhere between 12 and 21 houses per day. That's a fuckload of oil.

[Ruby the Liberal]

8. Thank you for adding that visual.

I was having trouble trying to envision how much volume this amounts to.

Wow.