This is what it and the rest of the manic drill,baby,drill morons who can't be bothered thinking things through or considering reality until they've maximized their idiocy's potential for social and environmental damage looks like :
It's being estimated landfall of the oil will begin in 2-3 days, at which point we can start reliving the horrors of the Valdez...remember that cute little episode?
The Coast Guard said a new leak was found at the site where an oil platform exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico.
Rear Adm. Mary Landry gave a new estimate of 5,000 barrels a day leaking. Officials had been saying for days that it was 1,000 barrels a day.
She also said the Secretary of Homeland Security briefed the president on the new information. She said the government offered to have the Department of Defense help contain the spill.
A graphic posted by the Coast Guard and the industry task force fighting the slick showed it covering an area about 100 miles long and 45 miles across at its widest point.
Amid several of the thicker streaks, four gray whales could be seen swimming, and one of them appeared to be rolling and curling as if struggling or disoriented. It was not clear if the whale was in danger.
More than two dozen vessels moved about in the heart of the slick pulling oil-sopping booms.
Earlier Wednesday, Louisiana State Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham told lawmakers that federal government projections show a "high probability" oil could reach the Pass a Loutre wildlife area Friday night, Breton Sound on Saturday and the Chandeleur Islands on Sunday.
As the task force worked far offshore, local officials prepared for the worst in case the oil reaches land.
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