[Rapier]

Guys, this is way worse than anyone is being told up front. The truth is coming in drips and drabs. It is so obvious that no one in Congress or the O'BS Administration wants the truth to appear all at once. They are covering crap like a cat. Best example is the flow of the well, started at 10K barrels, then 20K, then 30K then 40K. when they had the production figures all along.

Facts:
The well is spewing 1.6 million gallons per day!
So far 100 million gallons plus.
The field is said to be the size of Saudi Arabia, it is huge!
The blow out preventers had but one switch, electric wire activated, which instantly broke when the pipe seperated.
North Sea wells are required two switches acustic and electric, their blow out preventers are expensive but, they work.
No one right now knows how to shut the well off, they are trying different approaches but all are experiments.
It has been confirmed by testing that the oil has entered the Loop Current in the Gulf.
The Loop Current runs along the north Gulf, very deep and emerges in the Keys, at a shallow depth, runs through the coral reef heads and out into the Gulf Stream into the Atlantic.
The Gulf Stream runs up to the Carolinas, where the Gulf Stream meets the Atlantic Conveyor.
Part of the Gulf Stream runs over to north Africa.

If the oil is not stopped and soon, it will end up on the beaches of Europe and Africa. In other words, yes, this may well turn into a world disaster of immense preportions and consequense.

BP did what any large corporation would do, meet the requirements in the regulations. The Congress of the US passed the laws and set forth the requirements. They were the police. The police were paid by those that they were supposed to be policing. The requirements did not fail, the police failed to properly require or protect. Do not listen to the absolute political BS about BP, that is a diversion. The fault here lies directly on the door step of the Congress and Obama was a prime mover in this entire episode as a senator and was a major recipiant of BP money..... he was in fact the largest recepiant of BP money and BP was the largest single contributor to his presidential campaign. That is a fact, local papers investigated his envolvement with BP.

If I was the rest of the world, I would be real pissed off at this point.
Ed

PS: Watching the attempts to save the Bays and Bayous is like watching a three stooges movie. County, puts booms out, state makes county remove them because the state does not like the layout, booms are repositioned. Feds arrive, pitch a fit, booms are removed again and oil is in the mean time running into the Bays. Makes you want to just line a bunch of "I am in charge" idiots up against a wall. O'BS arrives and must drive down the highway, all work stopps and everyone is evacuated because he might get his dumb ass shot, and half a day is lost so the AH can get a picture taken of him on the beach. If you did not come to shovel tar balls stay the Fu#* home.