[ot gom oil mess]
To challenge my "brilliant estimate" with cynicism when you've done no research is down right closed minded. That fact is fact and I see no need in debating you on it.
if the Exxon Valdez spilled 250k bbls (wikipedia number), then your number for the DwH well would be 50k bbls/day. Given what existing wells in this sort of environment produce that number is possible but probably high. The 70k bbl/day number from the professor from Indiana being touted on CNN is very unlikely. But again, speculation is a lot of fun so why wait for the facts.
As for hiring more clean-up companies. There are some logistical and logical barriers to just throwing money up in the air and hoping that the people who pick it up go out and do the job without exacerbating the problem and not getting hurt in the process. I've heard exactly one mention in the media regarding fumes in the area of the spill. People don't seem to connect the dots between that and what happens to the oil between the pipe opening on the seafloor and it becoming tar balls (and you might want to wonder why they are called 'tar balls'). As much as 90% of the mass of the stuff coming out of that well is going into the atmosphere before it hits the beach (that number may be high but the percentage is closer to 90% than it is to 20%).
regards,
Charlie
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