WASHINGTON -- An Obama administration task force formed this week to determine how much crude is surging into the Gulf of Mexico from a wrecked oil well includes an engineering professor who has told Congress he believes the spill is far larger than originally thought, but not a representative from BP, the oil company responsible for the spill. The move to keep BP from being a full member of the task force may be intended to provide credibility for the new estimate after nearly two weeks of open challenges to the official 5,000-barrel-a-day estimate. Experts who have studied videos of the spill pegged the amounts at many times that.
Miami Herald May 21, 2010
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