How Much Oil is Being Lost in the Deepwater Horizon Spill?

By Tuesday May 11, 2010


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Here’s a list of other oil spills (uses Google Docs spreadsheet).



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  1. ECA says:
    5/11/2010 at 2:15 pm

    has anyone noticed that this GRAPH shows only 19gallons of fuel per barrel??
    I think that is WRONG.

    #6 has it..
    And creating FUEL from crude gives an Equal amount of FUEL, and then OTHER products.
    It comes out as a 50:1 process..for all the gas’s and other materials we get from 1 barrel.

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  2. JimD says:
    5/11/2010 at 6:19 pm

    We saw the THREE STOOGES from BP, Haliburton, and the other company in Congress today and the story was that they were pointing at each other to place the blame, but what they were really doing is GIVING CONGRESS THE FINGER !!! THEY ARE EXEMPT, AND THEY KNOW IT !!!

    CORPORATE POWER UBER ALLES !!! THE CORPS RUN THE GOVERNMENT, WE HAVE ***FASCISIM*** IN AMERICA !!!

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  3. lens42 says:
    5/12/2010 at 12:25 am

    The graphical representation of data in this chart is garbage. It uses circles to imply relative size, but the scale is way off. On closer inspection you see that only items in the same horizontal line use the same scale, but how many people will look that carefully? The bottom circle, when compared to the upper left circle, at first makes you think that we’ve spilled a significant portion of worlds total oil supply, but when you read the numbers you realize that the scale is not even close. What’s the point of the big circle then?

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  4. Angus says:
    5/12/2010 at 5:22 am

    I still think the explosion that caused this is highly suspicous. This kind iof thing is a once in a generation type disaster, and it happens just as Obama says we’ll drill? China has a very significant presence in the Gulf of Mexico, thanks to the deals with Cuba and Venezuela. Having the US rollup their Gulf Oil Projects would be a great win in their minds.

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  5. Rabble Rouser says:
    5/12/2010 at 7:19 am

    Now what if they CANNOT plug the hole in the Gulf? What happens then?

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  6. Winston says:
    5/12/2010 at 7:25 am

    Wow! When the leak reaches 1,225,104 million barrels, we’re in REAL trouble!

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  7. Rick Cain says:
    5/15/2010 at 6:34 pm

    I hope we run out of oil. It would be great, the oil companies would go broke, congressmen would lose their re-election money, and finally we would get electric cars.

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