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Sure, but using the example of a quart of oil in a small pond was also a misuse of math.

Of course the spill was bad.

But I am confidently predicting that over the next year or so the economic damage done by the response and hysteria will greatly exceed any actual damage done by the oil.

This response currently includes killing tourism, shutting down fishing far longer than is probably necessary, generally stomping all over the oil industry in hobnailed boots, and flying wedges of attorneys casting lawsuits in every direction. I also predict that the chemical dispersant will figure prominently in the latter.

I remember a "Pinky and the Brain" cartoon where the plan was to generate a lawsuit by staging a fake accident and resulting "mutation" with a microwave and powdered coffee creamer.

Pinky asks, "why a microwave?"

Brain: "Because no one really knows how a microwave works."

Pinky: "But why the powdered creamer, Brain?"

Brain: "No one really knows how that works either."

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