{"id":579903,"date":"2010-05-26T16:47:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T20:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/matthew-simmons-dylan-ratigan-deepwater-2010-5"},"modified":"2010-05-26T16:47:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T20:47:39","slug":"oil-guru-matthew-simmons-it-could-be-24-years-before-the-deepwater-gusher-ends-bp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579903","title":{"rendered":"Oil Guru Matthew Simmons: It Could Be 24 Years Before The Deepwater Gusher Ends (BP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By far the most pessimistic take on the oil spill comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsco-intl.com\/\">oil guru Matthew Simmons<\/a>, who was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32450072\/vp\/37322455#37322455\">The Dylan Ratigan Show<\/a> this afternoon. His warning: There may be no way to stop the leak, and it could take 9000 days (over 24 years) for the gusher to end, while we wait for the well to simply run out. Simmons comes in around the 7 minute mark.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And check out: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sickening-photos-of-oil-entering-the-marshes-2010-5#-1\">sickening pictures of oil entering the marshes &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<object id=\"msnbc6ac96e\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=37322455&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" name=\"msnbc6ac96e\" flashvars=\"launch=37322455&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"opaque\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #999999; margin-top: 5px; text-align: center; width: 420px;\">Visit msnbc.com for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\">breaking news<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\">world news<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/matthew-simmons-dylan-ratigan-deepwater-2010-5#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/dWnXrD9ux24\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By far the most pessimistic take on the oil spill comes from oil guru Matthew Simmons, who was on The Dylan Ratigan Show this afternoon. His warning: There may be no way to stop the leak, and it could take 9000 days (over 24 years) for the gusher to end, while we wait for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}