• dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    How do 1 million gallons of oil accidentally leak into the Gulf Of Mexico? Don’t the oil companies have valves on their equipment?

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      1 year ago

      I haven’t read the article but sometimes oil cracks out from the actual ocean floor, not valves, and is very hard to plug. Not sure if that’s the case here.

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      1 year ago

      They do, it isn’t a million. The article is deliberate sensationalism. If you read the Coast Guard’s press releases, you will see they didn’t say a million gallons was leaked.