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Gulf fat allen, the admiral from the u.s. coast guard. how could the government have gotten these flow rates so wrong? originally bp said 1,000 barrels a day, then 5,000, then recently 12 to 19,000 barrels a day. now they are saying it's actually double that, 20,000 to 40,000 and that was before this cut-and-cap procedure was put into place. what's going on here? >> wolf, thanks for asking the question because we need to have a good discussion about this. first of all, these are the government estimates. these are being directed under marshal mcnutt and some of the best scientists around the c...