30 Days later the Oil still flows!

BP announced today that it is now capturing an estimated 5,000 barrels a day of crude oil and 15 million cubic feet of natural gas from one of the leaking pipes at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the first time the company has publicly admitted that its earlier estimate that only 5,000 barrels of oil were gushing into the Gulf each day were woefully inaccurate. BP is capturing only a portion of the oil from only one of two leaks on the sea floor, adding further evidence that the company’s daily outflow estimate is far too low.

Several scientists who testified in front of Congress yesterday said the total outflow could be more than 100,000 barrels a day, far above BP’s estimate.