On Apr 27, 4:39*pm, Canuck57 wrote:
On 27/04/2010 3:00 PM, Frogwatch wrote:



On Apr 27, 1:52 pm, *wrote:
On Apr 27, 1:46 pm, *wrote:

On 4/27/10 4:43 PM, Frogwatch wrote:

On Apr 27, 1:37 pm, * *wrote:
40,000 gallons of oil/day would fit into a cube 17.5 feet on a side,
not exactly a major spill. *Consider that 75% of such oil is typically
volatile and will readily evaporate, that goes down to about 11 feet
on a side, a tiny amount.

Besides, if you're so worried about it, set fire to the spill.

Apparently the correct answer in approximately 42,000 gallons a day.
That's 1000 barrels. Perhaps it could be arranged to have 1000 gallons
of oil spilled into your boat, onto your lawn, or into your living room.

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The Tea Party's teabaggers are just the Republican base by another name.

Let's consider how much oil is leaked by 2 cycle
outboards............yes, it really is *a small spill. *Not worth
worrying about since nature spills far more from natural seeps in the
Gulf. *OF course, nature has spilled huge amounts off of Santa
Barbara, CA in building the "Asphalt Mountains" that have just been
discovered ibn the deep water off Santa Barbara.

OMG, 40,000 gallons, that is over 151400000 mL. *Why, that could fill
up 1000 of those stupid Cadillac SUVs.

Obama's Auto One only gets 8 mpg highway as has 2 tanks.

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Socialism and statism are great as long as someone else pays for it.

A truly insignificant amount of oil compared to the amount that
naturally leaks into the Gulf from natural seeps. BY the time this
reaches land,(if it ever does), it will have evaporated all the
volatiles and will be little blobs most of which will sink.
Let us consider who is the biggest hypocrite here. Do you have a two
cycle outboard? Each two cycle motor puts a phenomenal amount of oil
into the water. Even a well tuned 4 cycle engine puts some oil into
the water if it uses thru the hub exhaust. What sort of fuel economy
does your boat get? If it is worse then 2 mpg, then you are far worse
a pollutter than this rig is.
This is also about 30 degrees latitude, not like the Exxon Valdez
where the amount of UV from sunlight is low. Here, the UV index is
high enough to break down he heavy hydrocarbons very rapidly.
Styrofoam does not last very long and neither does oil with its long
chains of hydrocarbons, the UV breaks it down rapidly.