oil from the gulf a day. numbers matter here. this is a number the feds did not question. it's also 30,000 barrels more than the current upper leak estimates. which would mean if bp were living up to its promise, it would be capturing each and every drop of oil coming out of this pipe every day with capacity left over to do the same for seven more leaking pipes just like this one. nothing would be hitting the beaches or the marshes. ask a shrimper if that's the case. see what an oyster man has to say. look at the oiled birds and see how well bp is living up to its oil collection promise to regulators. run the numbers and you'll see. they're not doing very well at all. according to the washington post, skimming only accounts for 67,000 barrels of oil recovered and not per day either, but over the entire 78 days of this disaster. burning it gets another quarter million or so.