Sickening data

I always felt that the estimates of how much oil was flowing into the Gulf of Mexico were grossly underestimated (and I still feel like they might be).
Now the picture is coming into more focus:

A government panel on Tuesday again raised its estimate of the oil escaping from BP’s out-of-control well, to as much as 60,000 barrels a day. The new estimates, made since a damaged riser was cut on June 3, mean that roughly 2.5 million gallons of oil are spilling into the Gulf of Mexico every day, and that an amount equal to the Exxon Valdez spill could be gushing from the well about every four days.

Sickening.