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- When you drive to the beach, you can fill up your tank right at the shore.
- You can stop feeling guilty about the time you dumped that used motor oil out behind your house.
- No need to bring sun tan oil to the beach-go for a swim and you’ll be coated.
- When the gas prices are jacked up again, at least you’ll know why.
- It takes up news time that would otherwise be devoted to water skiing squirrels and Frisbee catching dogs.
- It put an end to people chanting “drill, baby, drill’…but “spill, baby, spill” is almost as annoying.
- It probably killed the giant sea monster that was on its way to attack New Orleans.
- It will create a lot of new jobs-get those applications in for Bird Scrubber, Beach Cleaner and Clam Therapist.
- At least it is not radioactive.
- Self cooking seafood-touch a match to it, put it out and you’re ready to eat!
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Thanks for tip on the squirrel, Mike. I had missed that one.
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/twiggy-water-skiing-squirrel-thrills-crowds-in-st-paul/4630d358432e295d86204630d358432e295d8620-41210086156
That is news gold.
I have a sinking feeling that this oil disaster is being downplayed and may be much larger than we think. I wanted to know just how much oil was flowing into the ocean from that broken pipeline (in both barrels and in gallons) so I did some research on my own.
Barrels vs. Gallons
Most news articles claim that since April 21, 2010 roughly 4 million gallons of sweet crude have been leaked into the Gulf at a rate of 210,000 gallons per day. But according to an Associated Press article just posted today (What went wrong at oil rig? A lot), approximately 4,000,000 barrels have already spilled into the Gulf. When you convert those barrels into gallons, you end up with a whopping 168,000,000 gallons of oil: that’s a difference of 164,000,000 gallons from the previous estimate!
(Don’t believe me? Read the articles and convert the measurements for yourself.)
http://www.examiner.com/x-42484-Environmental-Health-Examiner~y2010m5d12-Toxic-chemicals-used-in-BP-oil-spill-cleanup-oil-to-remain-flowing-through-Gulf-VIDEO
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill
http://www.calculateme.com/Volume/Barrels(Petroleum)/ToGallons.htm
They started downplaying it from the start, so I suspect you are right.