What is gushing up from the BP well equals the daily amount of oil used by 367,000 Americans per day

[kpete]

“This Scares Everybody” says BP:
Top Kill Fails, Imperils Gulf;
“There are no Solar Spills”
Posted on May 30, 2010 by Juan

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Worse, the best estimates of independent scientists for the amount of petroleum being released daily is now north, possibly well north, of 25,000 barrels a day.

To put this rate in perspective, it should be noted that oil companies routinely invest substantial resources to get fields going in places such as the Philippines, Indonesia and Iraqi Kurdistan that pump 7,000 to 15,000 barrels of petroleum a day.

Every 1000 Americans consume roughly 68 barrels a day of petroleum. This statistic means that what is gushing up from the BP well equals the daily amount of oil used by 367,000 Americans per day, that is, by cities the size of St. Louis or Minneapolis. Imagine all the cars and trucks filling up in such major cities every day, and the buildings using heating oil, and imagine taking all that oil and gasoline and dumping it in the Gulf of Mexico. Every day.

more:
http://www.juancole.com/2010/05/this-scares-everybody-says-bp-top-kill-fails-imperils-gulf-there-are-no-solar-spills.html


Gulf of Mexico, Late Jurassic - 2010
"Drill, Baby, Drill"
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7866

[midnight]

1. The process of retrieving this old energy source is not worth

the destruction it creates... I wonder why this much oil was allowed to be dumped onto the shores of our great country?