The amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico may be at least 10 times the size of official estimates, according to an exclusive analysis conducted for NPR.
At NPR's request, experts examined video that BP released Wednesday. Their findings suggest the BP spill is already far larger than the 1989 Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska, which spilled at least 250,000 barrels of oil.
Every new bit of information that I learn about this makes me want to just shut down and weep. I can't even fathom the amount of destruction that is going on right now. I'm positive now that we may have never seen such destruction to our Earth's eco system as we're going to witness in the aftermath of this spill. 20,000 to 100,000 barrels of oil every 4 days. I am physically in shock I think because I can only think about the situation for about 3 to 5 minutes at a time then I force myself to ignore it for the next 24 hours. The entire Gulf of Mexico is going to be a wasteland. If they're lucky enough to contain it to the Gulf.
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