GALLONS of oil spilled!

Heres some comparisons and facts to help you visualize the amount of Oil being spewed:
Comparisons

• Oil Spill enough to fill   olympic swimming pools. (660253 gallons)
• Oil Spill enough to fill   gasoline tank trucks. (9000 gallons)
• Oil Spill enough to fill   super big gulps. (0.32 gallons)

Quote

"We see clear evidence every day, as oil spills from BP's well, of the need for a pause on deepwater drilling, That evidence mounts as BP continues to be unable to stop its blowout, notwithstanding the huge efforts and help from the federal scientific team and most major oil companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico." - Interior Secretary Ken Salazar

"It will take years to completely clean up the damage from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster" - Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the federal government's response manager for the oil disaster, said Monday. (6/7)

Headlines

• BP Cap Holding. Leak Stopped! cnn.com (7/16)
• BP deliberately sinks oil with Corexit as cover up examiner.com (7/01)
• Alex to become hurricane, delay oil spill efforts reuters.com (6/28)
• Think you have a solution for the Oil Spill? Win 10 Million Dollars! time.com (6/28)
• Air Polution a New Health Concern latimes.com (6/28)
• Tropical Weather System Could Disrupt Gulf Oil Spill Response voanews.com (6/25)
• Judge who nixed drilling ban has oil investments yahoo.com (6/23)
• Each Day, another way to define worst case for oil spill washingtonpost.com (6/23)
• Deepwater Ban Lifted; Big Oil Lesson Learnedforbes.com (6/22)
• Surprise! New estimates almost double the output since the beginning cnn.com
(6/10)
• Top cap is now siphoning more than half of the oil spewing from its damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico abcnews.com (6/7)
• Gulf oil disaster cleanup to take years cnn.com (6/7)
• Shocking Pictures of Birds Caught in the Oil boston.com (6/3)
• BP moving ahead with containment cap to corral Gulf leak reuters (6/1)
• US Launches Criminal Investigation into BP Spill marketwatch.com (6/01)
• BP's top kill effort fails to plug Gulf oil leak google.com (5/29)
• New spill estimates from U.S. Geological Survey Director Marcia McNutt cnn.com (5/27)
• How BP's "top kill" procedure will work cnn.com (5/24)
• Cleaning oil-soaked wetlands may be impossible usatoday.com (5/22)
• Collection of Pics of BP Oil Leak denverpost.com (5/20)
• BP Execs says its capturing 5000 barrels of oil a day (WTH!) washingtonpost.com (5/20)
• Oil Spill, before and after cnn.com (5/19)
• BP announces that it is capturing 2000 barrels a day with newly placed riser insertion tool bp.com (5/18)
• Why BP Won't Measure the Oil Spill theatlantic.com (5/18)

Wildlife Affected

• Gulf oil spill's wildlife toll: sharks near shore, turtles incinerated csmonitor.com (6/25)
• Shocking Pictures of Birds Caught in the Oil boston.com (6/3)
• Reason why there are hardly any Wildlife affected Pics Wordpress (6/2)
• Millions of Feeder Fish Source (5/19)

Random Facts and Resources:

• About % worse than the Exxon Valdez accident (11 Million gallons)
• Leaking since April 20th 2010, 10PM EST
• ESRI User Submitted Content Oil Spill Map