My Gripe with Off-Shore "Spilling"

They keep calling it a “spill.”

My definition of a spill is when I have

something contained, and the substance

gets out of my container. Exxon was a spill.

There was only so much oil in that tanker…

then it was in the water. It spilled.

What is happening here is more of a… leak.

(see interactive graphic here)

I compare it to a keg being tapped,

…and something goes wrong with

the tap. Now there’s beer flowing

all of the damn place.

…but this is not beer, it’s crude oil.

(and it's not a keg, it's the earth...)

Then I hear they’re measuring the amount

pouring out of this “leak” in barrels…

Has anyone filled a barrel lately?

There’s no way to accurately measure

how much is leaking because there’s

no way to bottle the freakin’ ocean.

This is the worst case human-caused

environmental devastation since

our forefathers dropped the bomb.



* Special thanks to Ryan Doyle for
posting the blog that inspired this
spill vs. leak discussion...