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This calculation is based on a BP executive’s report stating that before the explosion gas was being removed at a rate of 3,000 cubic feet of gas for every barrel of oil. There are 5.64 cubic feet of gas per barrel at normal temperature and pressure. The equivalent barrel/barrel rate is therefore approximately 532 barrels of gas per barrel of oil. That methane would not escape into the atmosphere, but as methane breaks down in water it removes the dissolved oxygen, and it has substantially removed the oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico. See, ‘innereye’, “Gas Leak 3,000 Times Worse than Oil”, Daily Kos, 16 May 2010, available at http://tinyurl.com/q4ct2f9 .

David Fleming
Dr David Fleming (2 January 1940 – 29 November 2010) was a cultural historian and economist, based in London, England. He was among the first to reveal the possibility of peak oil's approach and invented the influential TEQs scheme, designed to address this and climate change. He was also a pioneer of post-growth economics, and a significant figure in the development of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation, as well as a Chairman of the Soil Association. His wide-ranging independent analysis culminated in two critically acclaimed books, 'Lean Logic' and 'Surviving the Future', published posthumously in 2016. These in turn inspired the 2020 launches of both BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's feature film about Fleming's perspective and legacy - 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?' - and Sterling College's unique 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time' online courses. For more information on all of the above, including Lean Logic, click the little globe below!

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