Regarding the oil spill, which is totally dominating our lives right now.

Follow this link:

http://www.wwl.com/View-all-12—Spill-Cam—video-feeds/7381402

This is the link from WWL radio to all 12 robot cameras being used by BP. As you can see, oil is GUSHING out in humongous amounts.

The federal government gave a lowball figure of 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day gushing out of the well. Then, BP puts this cap on and claims they are getting 10,000 barrels a day. If all these numbers were correct, there would be a noticeable diminution in the amount of oil that we see.

But, in fact, for those of us who are living this shit every day, we cannot tell ANY difference in the flow.

There are several possibilities:

1) Our eyes deceive us.
2) BP’s numbers are a lie.
3) The Feds’ numbers are a lie.

I pick #3. It is entirely possible that BP is getting 10,000 barrels a day from their cap. But there is no way in hell that well is putting out only 17,000 barrels a day. Independent analysts have reported they believe as much as 100,000 thousands barrels a day is coming from this well. If this is the case, then BP is retrieving only about 10% of the oil that is gushing out. I believe that such a rate is a total failure.

BP and the government are totally scamming the media. Here in South Louisiana, we aren’t buying it, not for one damned second. Please don’t send out stories with these idiotic numbers, or at least put in an editorial blurb. These flow rates are complete and utter bullshit.

Elizabeth Higgs

editor’s note: We try not to make a habit of buying government or corporate promo numbers here at Rational Review. I’m posting this letter from one of our readers/supporters for our readers’ benefit and so that I have a handy link reference to append to our future links to stories related to the spill - TLK]