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British Petroleum and Niagara Falls
by
Watchdog | 06.11.2010
How to visualize how much oil we are talking about. A latest report has the British Petroleum Gulf Gusher "leaking" 40,000 barrels of oil a day. At 42 gallons per barrel, that's 1,680,000 gallons a day. Niagara Falls spills 150,000 gallons of water a second. Multiply the figure of 1,680,000 gallons of oil a day times the number of days (56) since the oil rig explosion (April 24 to June 11). That gives us 94,080,000 gallons of oil. That figure divided by 150,000 gallons a second over Niagara tells us that it takes Niagara Falls 627.2 seconds to dump the water equivalent of the Gulf gusher as of this date. Watch Niagara Falls for Ten Minutes and Forty-Five seconds and imagine that was oil. (Add 11.2 seconds each day after June 11.) Now imagine BP CEOs and derelict U.S. "regulators" in a canoe.... Adjust the math, of course, to keep up with reliable leak volume estimates. PS: An ally sent this link to a short You-Tube bit about ANOTHER BP spill. |
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