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A drop, then..
podrock — (archived)

..just a single drop of 10W-40 into your pond. It probably won't kill anything, but it won't be pretty.

If you narrowed your volume calculations to the area that the spill actually covers, you'll get a much higher number, which will still not properly assess the impact of oil slicks on the environment. And there are many areas that are seeing much more than a quart of oil in the same volume of your pond. Oil spreads out, a small amount can cover a vast surface area.

I happen agree with your thesis: the media uses the worse case scenario. Why? For ratings. They are corporations looking for profit, using advertising dollars, based on ratings. That's cool, as far as it goes. Both the left leaning media and their counterparties on the right use this technique.

But your volume calculations are still misleading. If you could shake the whole gulf like it was salad dressing, you might be correct.

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