Our Gulf of Mexico...

The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989, when the Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, hit Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled an estimated minimum 10.8 million US gallons of crude oil. It was considered to be one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters ever to occur in history. UNTIL The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion of catastrophic proportion occured April 20, 2010! On the morning of April 22, 2010 (two days after the blowout accident), CNN quoted Coast Guard Petty Officer Ashley Butler as saying that "oil was leaking from the rig at the rate of about 8,000 barrels (340,000 US gallons) of crude per day." That’s an estimation of 17,340,000 of US gallons into the Gulf of Mexico from the day it began - today, 06.09.10!!! However, to place a bandaid on this horrific situation as of June 08, 2010 the numbers have been lowered to try to lessen the graphic impact of this major accident.