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BP spills a fuck ton of oil! ...again

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jfxphoto
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1,400 gallons of oil in Lake Michigan.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-bp-oil-spill-lake-michigan-20140327,0,7519350.story

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Mar 28 2014 1:55PM
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CaptainObvious.
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Mar 28 2014 1:56PM
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Dirac
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1500 gallons of oil is nothing.
Mar 28 2014 1:59PM
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El_Barto.
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200 million gallons is a fuckton...
Mar 28 2014 2:06PM
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jfxphoto
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If remember from highschool correctly, a fuckton is anything over 897 gallons.
Mar 28 2014 2:10PM
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El_Barto.
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Youre understanding of a fuckton is bad and you should feel bad
Mar 28 2014 2:13PM
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Dirac
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never compare nothing to a fuckton. Trust me on that one.
Mar 28 2014 2:21PM
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SFB
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Mar 28 2014 2:23PM
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theabortionator
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I just went down to the lake and dumped 2 gallons in protest of our dependance on oil.
Mar 28 2014 2:34PM
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jfxphoto
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hahaah you guys are cracking me up!


We should organize an ns protest, everyone gather up oil and dump it in your local lakes!!
Mar 28 2014 2:39PM
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japanada
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A little oil is the least of the concerns given what has been dumped into Lake Michigan over the past 20 years or so. Not to mention all the chems and waste those factories are still dumping into the lake. Get caught dumping, pay the big fine to a corrupt state, resume dumping until fined again. It's a never ending cycle.
Mar 28 2014 3:28PM
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Jaymon
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So fucked up. We need to change things asap

Mar 28 2014 4:02PM
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2_fadez
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"fuck ton of oil"
33 barrels lol. Accidents happen and thats barely anything in the oil industry. Hop off their dick. You don't bitch at Ford every time one of their cars malfunctions and kills someone.
Mar 28 2014 4:10PM
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Phil-X-
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So a metric ton is 1000kg

Crude Oil Density = 873 kg / cubic meter
1 cubic meter = 264.172 gallons
1 barrel of oil = 42 gallons
42 gallons * (1 cubic meter / 264.172 gallons) = .15898 cubic meters / barrel
.15808 cubic meters / barrel * (873 kg /cubic meter) = 138.8 kg / barrel of oil


138.8 kg/barrel * 39 barrels = 5413.2kg of oil.

5413.2kg of oil/1000


So, ~5.5 tons of oil.

I believe a "Metric Fuck ton" is 10 metric tons... so about half a fuck ton.
Mar 28 2014 6:43PM
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broto
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ton is 2000 pounds bruh

~2.7 tons
Mar 28 2014 6:45PM
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.Hugo.
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nerd
Mar 28 2014 6:46PM
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Mar 28 2014 6:57PM
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theabortionator
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Same thing with the ocean. Cheaper to pay the fine if you get caught than dispose of it properly.

Mar 28 2014 7:10PM
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corona
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spills of this size happen all the time in Canada and are rarely, if ever, reported.

I'd be more concerned about that ongoing spill in southern US that's been going since 2004 spilling somewhere around 15 gallons a day into the Gulf. That starts to add up fast. And the fact that it's been ongoing for 10 years now is pretty pathetic.
Mar 28 2014 7:22PM
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GayWolf420
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im more concerned about these fucks drilling in our great lakes.
Mar 28 2014 7:28PM
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2_fadez
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its a refinery bro
Mar 28 2014 7:30PM
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Rusticles
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I'm pretty sure it's required by Canadian government to report all spills and I'm pretty sure that the amount that isn't a recordable is significantly lower than 1500 gallons. From my experience spills companies follow these laws very strictly. They also clean them up according to very strict standards
Mar 28 2014 7:31PM
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GayWolf420
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my bad,






also isnt lake michigan still frozen solid? interesting to see how they clean it up.
Mar 28 2014 7:32PM
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Rusticles
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It's not that they're not reported, it's that they never reach the media. Large corporations are very focused at displaying a clean image.
Mar 28 2014 7:34PM
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GayWolf420
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i agree, but at the same time we can look at BP and people are still buying up their gas.
Mar 28 2014 7:39PM
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Rusticles
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Haha no doubt, kinda thought they would have been doomed after their little episode in the gulf.

Some what relevant: I was working at a big bitumen upgrader for one of the largest oil companies about 5 years ago and was at work on a Sunday for weekend coverage. Greenpeace broke into the plant site and climbed a bunch of towers and hung banners about climate change from them.
I listened to the whole fiasco on the security channel, security guards were instructed to not chase them, in fact they brought them coats and pizza when they were cold and hungry. The news helicopter came but was instructed to fuck off before they got close enough for pictures. Once they turned themselves in they were not arrested, their vehicle that they used was towed outside the gate and given back to them. We tried to find any news coverage of it for days and found nothing, not on TV, internet or print. Only coverage was on the greenpeace website. I was very surprised at how they handled the situation and by how little coverage there was.
Mar 28 2014 7:54PM
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El_Barto.
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We had a good thing going then your nerd ass had to come here with that science bullshit and fuck it all up. Do it again and im gonna give you a mushroom stamp
Mar 28 2014 10:41PM
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Phil-X-
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Mar 28 2014 10:51PM
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Phil-X-
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^thats basically the same size as the oil spilled in to the lake
Mar 28 2014 10:51PM
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DIX~
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Definitely not even close to a fuck ton
Mar 29 2014 1:17AM
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Chubbs.
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the problem is truly we can't change anything about this because we live off oil... as long as we stay oil dependent these kinds of things will occur and as long as it gets cleaned up then its just another incident.. the oil business shouldn't change if anything we need to start to become dependent on something other than oil.
Mar 29 2014 1:33AM
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skiersupreme
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i think the reason their called bp is cuz their service Blows Penis
Blows
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Mar 29 2014 1:37AM
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Gherbs
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to answer this late, yeah it is. Lake Superior is still frozen over, I see guys ice fishing everyday. any link to the drilling proof? i'd never heard about it
Mar 29 2014 1:40AM
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deleted5
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239.65 US gallons would equal a ton.
Mar 29 2014 1:41AM
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Phil-X-
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I live 20 min away from the lake/ 30 from Chicago lemme check.




kidding, but I doubt it, the lake has a lot of lunar movement and weve had above freezing temps for a bit now(and if you consider the impurities of the lake), im sure there are a lot of places that are frozen on the lake tho
Mar 29 2014 5:33AM
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Laurent.
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The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Mar 29 2014 7:23AM
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FuckAllOfYou
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He said metric tons ya chump, not pounds. Metric ton: 1000 kg sounds right
Mar 29 2014 9:17AM
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