it would be capturing each and every drop of oil coming out of this pipe every day with capacity leftover to do the same for seven more leaking pipes just like this one if it were living up to its promise. nothing would be hitting the beaches or the marshes. ask a shrimper to see 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 promise. 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. another 600,000 barrels is collected with that cap on the blow-out preventer, which leaves more than a million barrels of crude floating around the gulf. when asked for comment by the post, a bp spokesman said, quote shall the numbers, well, they are what they are.
hanging in there with us, because we ll play ball all summer long and it will be a great time to be at panama city beach. dan, i want to point out, this is one of the live shots he was talking about from that website. you can see there, it is a beautiful sight today. dan roe, panama city beach, florida. thanks for brings us that update and good luck all summer long and you continue to battle this. see you next week. oysters from the gulf of mexico, arguably some of the best. some of those waters have been closed, though, however, because of the oil, but not all, and not yet. s many as i can until it gets here. we go out with the oyster man on what may be their last run for a while.
could skim 491,000 barrels of oil from the gulf a day. this is a number the feds did not question. it s also 300,000 barrels more than what s happened. it would be capturing each and every drop of oil coming out of this pipe every day with capacity leftover to do the same for seven more leaking pipes just like this one if it were living up to its promise. nothing would be hitting the beaches or the marshes. ask a shrimper to see 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 promise. 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. another 600,000 barrels is collected with that cap on the