Re: Couldn't get past the first few paragraphs.
He was talking about the surface oil that the video predicted would hit the East Coast.
I'm getting about 206 million gallons of oil for the latest spill figures from news sites (it evolves over time). Another source gave me 139.5 million square miles of planetary ocean, so we're looking at more like 1.48 gallons per square mile. As an exercise, figure out how many angstroms thick the oil would be if you actually spread that amount out that thin over a square mile of ocean bottom.