Slow Motion Catastrophe Estimates

Just in case you have managed to miss the moving target that is Estimates of Oil GUSHING from the BP deep-sea well in the Gulf of Mexico. Here is a handy little chart, showing (not the increase in actual oil gushing into the gulf) the increase in the "estimates" of oil gushing into the gulf. First we only had what BP wanted to tell us (the low numbers). Then when they started showing us video, the numbers went up. Now they are capturing more than they originally said were gushing, so we know the early numbers were crap. And now experts that do not work for BP have finally been given the HD video that BP has been looking at since the beginning of this catastrophe, and low and behold the estimates are now much, much, much larger.
So keep it in mind that these larger numbers, represent what has been gushing from day 1.
But BP doesn't tell us. BP's partners in the government don't tell us.