{"id":1813,"date":"2010-06-02T08:33:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T14:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2010-06-02T08:33:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T14:33:48","slug":"see-the-size-of-the-gulf-oil-spill-superimposed-on-major-cities-update-060210","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=1813","title":{"rendered":"See the size of the gulf oil spill superimposed on major cities (update 06\/02\/10)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/a><\/p>\n

I was curious to see how things looked today, so I went back and put in some new locations.<\/p>\n

This is the oil spill (as of today) if it were centered on Scranton, PA.<\/p>\n

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Oil Spill 06\/02\/10 - PA & NY<\/p><\/div>\n

All of Manhattan. A good chunk of the Atlantic. Connecticut. Pennsylvania. New Jersey. A giant swath of New York State. <\/p>\n

Imagine all of this land covered in oil.<\/p>\n

So how about putting this monster over Texas?<\/p>\n

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Oil Spill 06\/02\/10 - TX<\/p><\/div>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Damn.<\/p>\n

According to the original oil spill size blog (alexanderhiggins.com)<\/a>, “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.”<\/p>\n

Why, exactly, is BP not getting reamed for this?<\/p>\n

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

Here’s the link to the original blog with the map<\/a> if you want to see how the oil spill would look over your state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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