{"id":727212,"date":"2010-04-30T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/deepwater-horizon-is-now-one-of-the-worst-oil-spills-in-history-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-07-19T20:29:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T00:29:01","slug":"whoa-oil-spill-may-be-5x-previous-estimates-and-could-pass-exxon-valdez-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/727212","title":{"rendered":"WHOA: Oil Spill May Be 5X Previous Estimates, And Could Pass Exxon Valdez TOMORROW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bdb381e7f8b9a694cd00500\/oil-spill-birds.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"oil spill birds\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Deepwater Horizon oil leak could be leaking at a rate of <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703871904575216382160623498.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines\">25,000 barrels a day<\/a>, five times yesterday&#8217;s estimate. The leak rate is 25 times BP&#8217;s initial estimate of 1,000 barrels per day.<\/p>\n<p>If the new numbers are correct, the Gulf of Mexico spill is <strong>will pass Exxon Valdez tomorrow<\/strong>. The 1989 spill involved 260,000 barrels of oil.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/about-the-bp-deepwater-gulf-oil-spill-2010-4#2001-transocean-builds-the-deepwater-horizon-hailed-as-a-marvel-of-modern-technology-it-is-leased-by-bp-through-2013-1\">Get Up To Speed On The Oil Spill &gt;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/deepwater-horizon-is-now-one-of-the-worst-oil-spills-in-history-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/f_kEylC8Gss\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deepwater Horizon oil leak could be leaking at a rate of 25,000 barrels a day, five times yesterday&#8217;s estimate. The leak rate is 25 times BP&#8217;s initial estimate of 1,000 barrels per day. If the new numbers are correct, the Gulf of Mexico spill is will pass Exxon Valdez tomorrow. The 1989 spill involved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33be","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}