WASHINGTON — In a closed-door briefing for members of Congress, a senior BP executive conceded Tuesday that the ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico could conceivably spill as much as 60,000 barrels a day of oil, more than 10 times the estimate of the current flow.
link: Amount of Spilling Oil Could Soar, BP Admits - NYTimes.com
In 2009, BP spend $16 million lobbying in Washington, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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