The lady from the govt. on Hardball just said 60-80K BPD!!!

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60,000 - 80,000 barrels per day!!!

It is day 57?

This is the mother of all disasters, deserve the President's mother of all responses!!!

[golddigger]

1. Don't take my word for it, but my quess it's in

the 100,000 to 120,000 range or higher.

[DesertRat]

2. Holy shit

:wow: :argh:

[damntexdem]

3. And if the casing comes apart, it could go up to 600k barrels a day.

And there's no guarantee that the relief well drilling will work.

It appears that we are in deep shit with this deep oil.

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5. I heard someone say it may take 3-4 years for the pressure to slow down

if we do not make it stop!

[PurityOfEssence]

8. That would be 25 million gallons a day, and a billion gallons in less than 6 weeks

That would be beyond disastrous

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4. And I just watched the Senate vote down Sanders amendment to end some tax breaks for the oil Co.

Many Dems voted against him...He even put in it that all revenues will got to paying down the deficit!!!

So 61 Senators prefer to keep the tax breaks for the oil companies? keep in mind, many of them pay no taxes and get refunds!!! I think Exxon's refund was $154 million last year.

You must have no soul to be a Senator...

[peacebird]

11. that is nauseating. Do you have a breakdown of the votes (please)?

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13. No, sorry I don't...Only 35 Senators supported it.......nt

[Smashcut]

12. Same here.

As I said on another thread, they've only ever publicized their lowball estimates. So we can easily guess the real number is in the 100K+ bbl/day range.

[PurityOfEssence]

6. That's over 3 million gallons a day

I'm speechless.

[xultar]

7. People are not idiots, that is why they wanted Obama to speak

to the nation earlier, i know i did.

When you look @ that video it looked like a barrel a second was flowing.

[lostnfound]

9. No surprise there. Tulane and FSU both had experts calculating 90K or higher

a few weeks ago. Basically no one here believed the BP story of 5K to 10K BPD, ever.
Don't know why the Coast Guard ever did. (LOL. That's a rhetorical comment, obviously.)

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10. Wait! Initial BP reports had it at just 1000 per day....nt