Where's The Oil? Your Government Doesn't Really Know

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/13/wheres-the-oil-your-gover_n_575647.html


For more than three weeks now, crude oil has been erupting out of a pipe a mile underneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. A new analysis of seafloor video indicates that nearly 70,000 barrels could be gushing out every day, NPR reports. That figure is at least 10 times the U.S. Coast Guard's original estimate of the flow, and "the equivalent of one Exxon Valdez tanker every four days."

And nobody really knows where it is, or where it's headed.

Federal officials are carefully tracking the trajectory of the oil that's made it to the water's surface and, increasingly, on shore. They even put out a daily map.

But there's never been an oil spill this big and this deep before. Nor have authorities ever used chemical dispersants so widely.

As a result, some scientists suspect that a lot, if not most, of the oil is lurking below the surface rather than on it, in a gigantic underwater plume the size and trajectory of which remain largely a mystery.
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so there you have it

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1. but, i thought my gov't. was in collusion with bp to destroy the world?

:sarcasm:

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2. I'm sure if Sarah Palin were president this would all be under control by now.

Yeah, I know people that think that. Seriously. That's how delusional some are... facts matter little to them.