Nice of You Guys in the Press to Finally Catch Up; BP Edition

A government panel on Thursday doubled its estimate of the amount of oil that had gushed for weeks from the out-of-control BP well even before the latest attempt to cap it.

The new calculation suggested that an amount of oil equivalent to the Exxon Valdez disaster could have been flowing into the Gulf of Mexico every 8 to 10 days.

This assessment, based on measurements taken before BP cut the riser pipe of the leaking well on June 3 to cap some of the flow, showed that approximately 25,000 to 30,000 barrels of oil could have been gushing into the Gulf each day. That is far above the previous estimate of 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day.

Awfully decent of you guys in the Obama Administration and in the press to update your figures. But if you clowns were doing more than just acting as stenographers for BP, you might have found a whole plethora of sources that were estimating that oil flow, oh, weeks ago.

On another note, the British are not too happy that we Americans have noticed that "BP" stands for "British Petroleum." They seem to be oh so upset by the fact that Americans have noticed that the operations of a British company in the US are notorious for lack of attention to things such as safety protocols and good practices.

Brittunculli.