Stephen, would you please get your facts straight and use them correctly before you start bashing. It's BP's oil, BP's leak, BP's negligence, & BP's denial of the quantities and effects people here have been pointing out from the beginning. Not to mention the UK being offended that we make demands and accusations against a company, which, although international, has British in it's name. It's off topic and enough said, but I couldn't leave it where you did. Karen In a message dated 6/16/2010 3:09:05 P.M. Central Daylight Time, stephen.davie@sympatico.ca writes: Interesting Bruce. Certainly seems to make sense to use the smaller faster boats, especially when there are no vehicles or freight items involved. I have been watching the news recently, about the devastating oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. The Yanks seemed very slow on the uptake to stop the leak. Today they have finally conceded that the actual daily gush, is about 60,000 barrels or 2.4 million gallons per day. It is approaching 60 days, or more than a quarter of a billion gallons.