The oil has been gushing out of that thing for so long now, it's been constantly putting out oil for weeks now. It will take a long time to recover from that, and they should have been prepared for stuff like this. Now he wants robots to go down and cut the hole bigger, so he can fit a custom made cap on it. The long term solution is drilling two relief valves, which will be done in august, which is a lot of oil spilling into the ocean untill then. Government estimates are that up to 19,000 barrels (798,000 gallons) of oil a day are flowing into the Gulf. And it started on April 20th, so it's been like 45 days!
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/01/gulf.oil.spill/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29
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