"Chicken Little" eh? You're right though. Let's see it happened April 20, it's now the 30th. 10 x 210000=2.1million gallons with more to come...a lot more. But yeah you're right it's nothing to get upset about. Just don't eat the fish you spear in the gulf for a few years, or dive for a while, or go to the marsh lands, or the beach, not to mention the damage to marine life. But yeah you're right, it's no big deal.captain wrote:A little perspective for the chicken little out there .Consider the 1979 Ixtoc 1 spill in the gulf of Mexico was and still is the largest spill in history and the gulf survived it. So far this spill is a small fraction of that spill and more than likely will never be anywhere near what Ixtoc 1 was.
Ixtoc 1 spilled 140,000,000 gallons of oil. This spill at the max estimate of 210 000 gallons a day would have to go on for 666 days to equal Ixtoc 1.
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