As a quick follow-up to last week’s post, I wanted to provide some more resources for you regarding the Deep Horizon Oil Spill Disaster:
http://www.mysanibel.com/Departments/City-Manager-s-Office/News
www.incidentnews.gov/incident/8220
www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com
www.roffs.com/deepwaterhorizon.html
and I also found another great website reporting on every detail over at NaplesNews.com
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/gulf-coast-oil-spill/
There’s so much at risk… so much at stake… I still find it unbelievable…
I also want to wish all the mothers out there a wonderful Mother’s Day weekend!
Until next week,
Sandy and Rob
THE Sanibel ~ Captiva Island Real Estate Blog 
May 12, 2010 at 6:12 pm
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