Govt. Flow Rate Tech. Group Scientist Says BP Well Could Be Gushing 100,000 Barrels Of Oil A Day. Could go for 30 years.

From Democracy Now:

On Tuesday BP and government officials claim that BP’s new cap system has collected over 51,000 barrels of oil since Friday. Tony Hayward has said he is hopeful the new measures would soon contain a major portion of the oil gushing out of the ruptured well, but scientist Ira Leifer says the oil may be gushing out at a rate of more than 100,000 barrels a day, a number that BP once called its worst-case scenario. Leifer is a researcher in the Marine Science Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a member of the government’s Flow Rate Technical Group.