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==The comparison to other countries, many of which have little to no petroleum industry, is the sleight of hand I'm addressing.== My point is that failing to m

==The comparison to other countries, many of which have little to no petroleum industry, is the sleight of hand I'm addressing.== My point is that failing to mention that they are comparing 20 days of leakage to an entire year, is also a slight of hand. 20 days is about 5% of a year, so the comparison still works for any country producing even 5% of the amount of oil & gas as Ohio. Ohio drills about 88k barrels/day [1]. 5% of that is 4.4k. European countries that produce more than 4.4k barrels/day, according to your Wikipedia link, are: Croatia, Hungary, France, Netherlands, Ukraine, Romania, Denmark, Poland, Serbia, Austria, Albania and Belarus (along with Norway, UK, Germany and Italy already mentioned). [1] https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPOH2&f=M https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M...

manfredo 7y ago
I'm not sure I follow. You're counting nation-wide petroleum production of these countries against 1/20th of the oil production of one US state, which only produces a fraction of the 15 million barrels of oil produced daily in the US. How is that a better comparison? Let me make my point even clearer: go pour a glass of gasoline out in your yard (hypothetically, don't actually do this). You have now polluted more than over a hundred countries' oil production industries. Because out of the ~200 countries on Earth, only 96 have oil industries. I could turn around and write, "one man contributed more oil spills than the oil industries of hundreds of countries!" and in a purely factual sense this is correct. But anyone who bothers to scrutinize this statement will see that it is very misleading.