Quotes: Oil Spill Gushing 100,000 Barrels a Day?

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“In the data I’ve seen, there’s nothing inconsistent with BP’s worst case scenario,”

— IRA LIEFER, associate researcher at the Marine Science Institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara and a member of U.S. government’s Flow Rate Technical Group, positing that the oil gusher in the Gulf may be spewing up to 100,000 barrels of oil a day. (via McClatchey)