Ralph Hall, Republican member of Congress from Texas, and incoming chair of the House Science and Technology Committee, commenting on the BP oil rig explosion:
“As we saw that thing bubbling out, blossoming out – all that energy, every minute of every hour of every day of every week – that was tremendous to me,” he said. “That we could deliver that kind of energy out there – even on an explosion.”
The BP-Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion killed 11 rig workers and contaminated 665 miles of coastline. The amount of oil that leaked into the ocean as a result of the BP-Deepwater Horizon oil explosion (205.8 million gallons, or 4.9 million barrels) is about “half the amount of crude oil the U.S. imports per day.” The Gulf Coast oil disaster was 19 times bigger (in terms of how much oil leaked into the Gulf waters) than the Exxon-Valdez oil spill.
Hat tip, Think Progress.
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