Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Ending the year with a still-gushing well would mean about 4 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf, based on the government's current estimate of 12,000 to 19,000 barrels leaking a day. That would wipe out marine life deep at sea near the leak and elsewhere in the Gulf, and along hundreds of miles of coastline. So much crude pouring into the ocean may alter the chemistry of the sea, with unforeseeable results. |