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For comparison, one supertanker holds 1-2 million barrels of oil. Relatively speaking this spill, though I'm sure very damaging (poisoning a creek), seems to ha

by dsq 4y ago

For comparison, one supertanker holds 1-2 million barrels of oil. Relatively speaking this spill, though I'm sure very damaging (poisoning a creek), seems to have been stopped in time, indicating that the warning systems are at least functioning as intended.

prepend 4y ago
The Exxon Valdez spill was 10.8M gallons or about 250,000 barrels. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill