Not too long ago, I posted a link to a website that shows you how big the oil spill is if it were superimposed on major cities.

I was curious to see how things looked today, so I went back and put in some new locations.

This is the oil spill (as of today) if it were centered on Scranton, PA.

Oil Spill 06/02/10 - PA & NY

All of Manhattan. A good chunk of the Atlantic. Connecticut. Pennsylvania. New Jersey. A giant swath of New York State.

Imagine all of this land covered in oil.

So how about putting this monster over Texas?

Oil Spill 06/02/10 - TX

Using Temple, TX (slightly south of Waco) as the “center”, the spill goes into Taylor/Runnels county to the West, Fort Worth and Dallas to the North, the Louisiana border to the East and Houston to the south.

As a point of reference, driving from Ballinger (a town in Scranton in the spill area) direct to Houston is over a 6 hour drive at 70-75 mph.

Damn.

According to the original oil spill size blog (alexanderhiggins.com), “60,000 barrels of oil are leaking into the Gulf of Mexico every day. That is equal to one Exxon-Valdez oil spill leaking into the Gulf of Mexico every 4 days.”

Why, exactly, is BP not getting reamed for this?

Why, exactly, isn’t the president doing a “fist of an angry God” impression on BP’s corporate entity?

Here’s the link to the original blog with the map if you want to see how the oil spill would look over your state.