BP says oil leak may be bigger than it thought

As a child growing up in the Great State of Texas, (from 1971 - 1988) this type of tragedy was all too familiar and all to real for me as a young boy spending much of my time on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. As a child I remember packing our towels, sunscreen, flip flops, coolers full of drinks and sandwiches and one of the most important items was the alcohol wipes, yes little wetnap looking alcohol wipes used to wipe the oil off your body prior to picking up your towel to wipe the water from your body.


Know living in another great State, the state of Florida many are pushing for oil drilling directly off our gulf shores. I am fully against this proposal, not to mention that in the State of Florida our Gulf beaches are a Multi-Billion dollar industry and oh by the way Florida is in need of tourists and the revenue. This type of tragedy is all to real.


BP says oil leak may be bigger than it thought - Environment- msnbc.com:

"By BRETT MARTEL, CAIN BURDEAU
updated 37 minutes ago
NEW ORLEANS - Much more oil may be leaking from a Gulf of Mexico drilling site than first estimated, BP's Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said on Thursday.
The leak is more than the 1,000 barrels of day that was originally estimated last week after a deepwater rig exploded and burned off the coast of Louisiana, Suttles told NBC's TODAY show.
It may be as much as a new estimate of 5,000 barrels a day that the government first provided late Wednesday, he said."