According to Matthew Simmons, founder of the Ocean Energy Institute, aka, "Dr. Doom", as he is often referred to by conditioned groupthinkers and brain-dead corporatists, the CAP exercise BP is conducting on television is all for show.
"What you are seeing on television, what BP is saying about relief wells . . . that's a total ruse," said Simmons.
What he is essentially claiming, is BP has actually been diverting people's attention away from the real leak since the blowout by covering up the fact that there is an open hole at the actual oil well site about six miles away from the video feed on television, and that open hole is spewing around 120,000 barrels (5 million gallons) of crude oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico. What you are actually seeing on television, according to Simmons, is the riser on the sunken oil rig.
At Tuesday night's talk in Camden, Simmons said BP has misled the public and the government into focusing on a smaller spill at the site of the oil riser that viewers can see on television. It looks big on cameras, said Simmons, but the plume of oil is only six feet high. The oil riser is attached to the sunken oil rig, not to the oil well itself, said Simmons. What is coming out of the riser, which is about a mile long, is not coming from the well itself.
"Keep in mind when the well blew, the rig caught fire and the guy at the joystick on the rig moved the rig away from the well so people could jump off," said Simmons. "Then the water boats pushed the rig farther from the well."
Simmons described the real blowout as an open hole gushing 120,000 barrels of toxic crude every day below the surface of the Gulf six or seven miles away from the riser. And BP is ignoring it, he said.
"What you are seeing on television, what BP is saying about relief wells . . . that's a total ruse," said Simmons.
Simmons' Take on the Oil Spill in the Gulf
Personally, I despise the all too often complicit television media for being more than willing to repeat the official corporate-establishment position on everything, keeping the public in the dark. They do no real investigations. They just take what they are fed off the wire and peddle it. The only thing they investigate are celebrity affairs and breakdowns, as if Americans are losing or finding jobs because Ensign, Edwards, Sanford, or Woods cheated on their spouses, or because Lindsay Lohan has fried her brain cells and Mel Gibson is insane. South Park pointed that out about Mel, years ago.
But, the Gulf of Mexico is being destroyed, and along with it people's lives and sea life, because BP has never once been honest about anything since this disaster began, and the media is not pressing them to be truthful. Even now, they are repeating everything BP says about the tests on the cap, as if it's gospel.
Simmons makes two more claims. First, that Gulf Coast residents will soon start suffering heavy health effects when the bulk of the oil washes on shore, and second, that the relief wells won't solve the problem because of the open hole.
That submerged lake of oil has grown larger than the size of Washington state and is approximately 500 feet thick, according to Simmons' estimate.
"It's thick oil, flowing like lava . . . covering a large part of the Gulf of Mexico and taking the oxygen out," said Simmons. When it mixes with the upper layer, the toxicity will be released, and when it comes ashore Simmons predicts it will take a heavy toll in human lives...
..."It's a sham," he said. "Relief wells only work if there is casing in the hole."
I think whether anyone chooses to believe Simmons, or feel like he's someone they should or shouldn't "trust" is irrelevant. He is regarded by most as an expert. At the very least, I believe the claims he's making should be looked into, instead of ignored offhand.