Is this Officially the Worst Oil Spill Disaster in World History?

It will cause unparrelled damage to the gulf coast and east coast during the next 5 months. Hurricanes that track over the oil will rain oil on the land at least 25 miles inland during this Hirricane season.

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This still isn't as bad as the Exxon Valdez

1) because the volume spilled, most likely, has not matched the EV
2) because the time period that it is being spilled over allows for greater dilution
3) Because it's not as close to the shoreline as the EV was

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Give it time and you will be proven wrong. come back and eat your crow when you take your green & yellow glasses off.

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I see what you did there

Okay, so play it down like BP is doing and see where it all lands. That's really a great plan. I would much rather paint a worst case senario then sit back and say it's not so bad. Isn't that how people die in Hurricanes??? They don't think it will be so bad and then they stay and die. Fear Mongering?

TBH, I suspect it would be actually beneficial for a hurricane to pass through.

Especially if it passes right after they clamp the well shut.

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It is as big or bigger in volume already.

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So you are a top scientist working in the field I see.

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It will have 50 times the economic impact than a spill in an unpopulated region for the most part.

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And an economic scholar, trained in geographical information systems.

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It will have a much much greater acological impact and spread up the east coact as well.

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And a pioneer in the field of acology?

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ANd can you really be serious about #2? What in the FKNG hell can you be thinking?

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But your ability to detect seriousness is lacking.

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If it goes a longer period of time, it spills a Valdez about every ten days or so.

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So you are saying it has already leaked 750,000 barrels (31.5 million gallons) of oil and virtually none of it has hit shore? Good guess Einstein.Truth is, no one knows, but assholes like you going around and spewing lies aren't making the situation any better. 5000 barrels a day is the official estimate, talking about possible amounts is worthless. It could also be 2000 barrels a day, I don't want to discuss that either.

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I don't mean to hate on you, but that is seriously the least thought out post that I've heard.

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What?

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THis will make the Valdez look like a Jiffy Lube fire if you even try to compared the financial, ecological, environmaental etc impact of the two.

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Hyperbole much? That's the problem with you naysayers. You were saying the same thing when Calcasieu Lake was "infected" by an oil spill a few years back. Why don't you go out there and point me to the crippling ecological (or acological, as you would say) effects of that spill.

If you guys want to talk about me coming back to eat my crow, then you should eat crow for that, right here and now.