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Old 07-27-2010, 02:02 PM   #522
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Originally Posted by fotze View Post
Back to the topic, I would be curious how that volume of oil compares to volume of the water in the ocean that it occupies. i.e. total volume of spill - recovered volume = remaining. Is the oil volume only .00003% of the total volume, like a grain of salt in a pool? Not sure?
Someone earlier said there were 92 million gallons of oil on the loose.

I said there were 643 quadrillion gallons of water in the Gulf of Mexico.

Get your calculator humming.

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