Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Mark Proegler, a spokesman for oil giant BP PLC, said the sucking of the leaking pipe over the weekend is capturing 210,000 gallons a day — the total amount the company and the Coast Guard have estimated is gushing into the sea — but some is still escaping. He would not say how much, because that would involve honest accounting, and since BP sux, that will not happen.
BP admitted Thursday that it was lying about how much oil is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico as heavy crude began poisoning Louisiana's wetlands feeding the collpase of America's fisheries and creating certainty about the massive monthlong spill's effect on the American economy.
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Honest experts who have watched video of the leak have said they believe the amount spewing out is much higher than what BP says it can suck.
Proegler said the 210,000 gallons — 5,000 barrels — has always been just an estimate because there is no way to measure how much is spilling from the seafloor.
"I would encourage people to take a look at the changing amount of oil coming from the ocean floor," said Steve Rinehart, another BP spokesman. "It's pretty clear that now that we're taking 5,000 barrels of oil a day, there's a significant change in the flow reaching the sea."
Proegler also encouraged people who don't like BP to dive to the bottom and look for themselves, saying that spewed oil would cover them to the same dcegree a scuba suit would, so once again, BP was adding safety margins as it works to keep sucking.
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- NEW ORLEANS – The gooey oil washing into the marshes along the Gulf which are normally the place where poisons are turned back into feed for ocean creature could prove impossible to remove. The toxic stew lethal to fish and wildlife that is accumulating now may destroy the fisheries of the Gulf Coast for decades, independent scientists said.
- The BP Sux chief sucker, responsible for the Gulf disaster, has faced criticism over his company's response to the spill. It may be hard to beleive that a CEO can be criticised for poisoning a mere 100,000 sqare miles of ocean, but indeed, even in these Fox News, Sarah Palin days, it can happen. However he has assured the British Broadcvasting company that he wouldn't quit, and after asll, nobody wants to fire him, since that would be evideence that there is something wrong with how BP Sux does business.
- Coast Guard Admiral Allen said that any oil that continues to leak at the source would be treated with subsea chemical dispersants.
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- EMPIRE, La. – BP Suc ceo Tony Hayward enjoyed his recent successes Saturday by racing his 52-foot yacht "Bob"off England's shore, where he promised to bring oil to the coast of England.
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