Pipe Dreams - The New Orleans Rig Disaster

BP tells us that it has a four inch “siphon” pipe inserted into the twenty-six inch gushing oil rig pipe off New Orleans.

All other things being equal, a twenty-inch pipe has twenty-five times the capacity of a four-inch pipe. The math is so simple that even a Democrat can do the calculation.

At identical pipe pressures, 5000 bbls per day into the four-inch pipe would suggest 120,000 bbls per day into the ocean. But pipe pressures are not equal; everybody is lying; and conditions deteriorate further with every passing day.

Words win elections, but lies cannot shield the planet from this mega-tragic reality.