Split the difference of the estimates of how much oil BP is spewing into the Gulf of Mexico every day, and you get about 30,000 barrels of oil. There are 42 gallons in a barrel, so that's 1.26 million gallons of oil that BP is killing the Gulf with daily.
Professor James J. Corbett of the University of Delaware asks, what's that in other units? If you refine 1.26 million gallons of oil into automobile and shipping fuel, how many vehicles could you power, and for how long? Answer: 69,000 cars, 6,200 trucks, and 3,200 ships for an entire year.
Dig the link to calculate the amount of what Prof. Corbett calls "lost transportation energy" based on other estimates of how much oil is flowing. Or dig another link to see a different calculation of "lost transportation energy."
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