http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100501/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill;_ylt=AuCIzqeIYluMT1chHDeoz1Os0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNkcGxpcjNqBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNTAxL3VzX2d1bGZfb2lsX3NwaWxsBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMQRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDb2lsc3BpbGw--snip-
The Deepwater Horizon well is at the end of one branch of the Gulf Stream, the famed warm-water current that flows from the Gulf of Mexico to the North Atlantic. Several experts said that if the oil enters the stream, it would flow around the southern tip of Florida and up the eastern seaboard.
"It will be on the East Coast of Florida in almost no time," Graber said. "I don't think we can prevent that. It's more of a question of when rather than if."
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As bad as the oil spill looks on the surface, it may be only half the problem, said University of California Berkeley engineering professor Robert Bea, who serves on a National Academy of Engineering panel on oil pipeline safety.
"There's an equal amount that could be subsurface too," said Bea. And that oil below the surface "is damn near impossible to track."
Louisiana State University professor Ed Overton, who heads a federal chemical hazard assessment team for oil spills, worries about a total collapse of the pipe inserted into the well. If that happens, there would be no warning and the resulting gusher could be even more devastating because regulating flow would then be impossible.
"When these things go, they go KABOOM," he said. "If this thing does collapse, we've got a big, big blow."
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and CNN keeps telling us about the stupid car in NYC
and Wash. Journal talked about the Nov. elections