The Gap

Hey moron, as Savage would say, hey you moron, idiot, schmuck Thad Allen, you don't have a clue what's going on down below the ocean's surface, where you have no cameras of your own to investigate. You are not seeing "very, very small drops in pressure" only because of a gap in the well column. You are seeing thousands of pounds of pressure less than you were hoping for because BP itself admitted there were at least two failure points in the well casing at 9000 and 17000 feet below the sea floor. There are probably more than that. Lindsey Williams' "Mr. X" described the well casing as completely "shattered." That, Mr. Allen, is why the pressure is so low. Open your damn eyes and look at the thousands of Youtube videos of petroleum coming straight up from cracks in the sea floor. Here, I'll make it easy for you:



That's what's going on down there that BP don't want you or any of the rest of us to see.