Worse than you -- as if you cared.
"US specialist says China oil spill understated" by Associated Press | July 31, 2010
BEIJING — China’s worst known oil spill is dozens of times larger than the government has reported — bigger than the
Related: Chinese Oil Spill Overtakes Gulf Gusher
China’s government has said 462,000 gallons of oil spilled after a pipeline exploded two weeks ago near the northeastern city of Dalian, sending 100-foot-high flames raging for hours near one of the country’s key strategic oil reserves. Such public estimates stopped within a few days of the spill....
Meanwhile, here in AmeriKa the government just repeats the same bogus numbers day after day:
"As much as 184 million gallons"
Actually, they lowered it! ....
"As much as 172 million gallons"
Also see: Government experts reveal 420 MILLION to 840 MILLION gallons of BP oil have flowed into Gulf
Slick, I mean, sick of the agenda-pushing yet, Americans?
The estimates could complicate China’s efforts to move on from its latest environmental disaster: Dalian’s mayor already declared a “decisive victory’’ in the oil spill cleanup, state media reported this week.
Yeah, here they could complicate BP's bottom line.
And OUR GOVERNMENT and MSM have done the SAME THING!
The spill has caused at least one death when a cleanup worker drowned in the sticky crude, and thousands of Dalian residents have used everything from their bare hands to chopsticks to pick the goo from the sea.
Are they getting sick yet like the Gulf Coast workers?
Rick Steiner, a former University of Alaska marine conservation specialist who worked on the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, announced the China estimates after touring the oil spill area as a consultant for the environmental group Greenpeace China. “It’s habitual for governments to understate oil spills,’’ Steiner told a news conference....
You SEE THAT, America?!
Why don't you COME ON HOME, Rick!
The government has said the pipeline exploded July 16 after workers continued to inject an agent to strip sulfur from oil after a tanker had finished unloading its cargo.
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