Either this is a very old article or the idiot who wrote it can’t do his math because current estimates and that is best possible (as is least amount spilled) is 150 million gallons. and with worst cases towards well over 300 million.
Not to mention that it isn’t closed yet. That person should work for BP with comparisons like that.
I found the original chart on the LA Times website. It’s dated May 27th. Even using their (outdated) estimate of 19K per day, that still amounts to almost 57M gallons – good enough for 8th place on that chart.
As of Wednesday, between 71.2 million and 139 million gallons of oil have gushed into the Gulf of Mexico from the leak caused by the April 20 explosion aboard the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill
Either this is a very old article or the idiot who wrote it can’t do his math because current estimates and that is best possible (as is least amount spilled) is 150 million gallons. and with worst cases towards well over 300 million.
Not to mention that it isn’t closed yet. That person should work for BP with comparisons like that.
I found the original chart on the LA Times website. It’s dated May 27th. Even using their (outdated) estimate of 19K per day, that still amounts to almost 57M gallons – good enough for 8th place on that chart.
As of Wednesday, between 71.2 million and 139 million gallons of oil have gushed into the Gulf of Mexico from the leak caused by the April 20 explosion aboard the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill
New York times shows government estimates between 41.5 and 120.5 million. Quite a wide range.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/01/us/20100501-oil-spill-tracker.html
Completely inaccurate.
His next article will explain to us all that there is no way, no how, no possibility at all of global warming.
35k to 65k barrels per day is 123 million gallons on the low end.
No matter what it was a disgusting thing that was a result of greed.