Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker View Post
And does anyone believe them? They've low balled every estimate so far....except one. Apparently, in the pre-drilling documentation, they estimated that the flow from a blowout would be in the vicinity of 160,000 barrels per day, which is considerably higher than the highest estimate of the current flow.
SH, I understand your frustration and so do thousands of others, including petroleum engineers, mechanical engineers, scientists, etc. This whole catastrophic event has been hush-hushed since the explosion. We are only allowed to read what BP and the feds allow us to read.

All of the potential solutions contain risk. Some are far worse than others. Nuclear detonation 5,000 or more feet below the surface has never been attempted. We are treading on untested ground and thin ice at the same time. I guess they never thought about that when they started to drill.