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Barrett808 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 06:23 PM
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Gulf oil spill more than 10X greater than thought
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Source: NPR

NPR has learned that much more oil, 70,000 barrels a day or more than ten times the official estimate, is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon pipe, based on scientific analysis of the video released Wednesday.

That's the equivalent of one Exxon Valdez tanker full every four days.


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