Officials have yet to find the source of the oil spill, which has left chunky globules and long slicks near a 67-mile-long pipeline system off the coast of Louisiana.
You: If you read the Coast Guard’s press releases, you will see they didn’t say a million gallons was leaked.
Them: From the U.S. Coast Guard press release:
Initial engineering calculations indicate potential volume of crude oil that could have been released from the affected pipeline is 1.1 million gallons.
You: If you read the Coast Guard’s press releases, you will see they didn’t say a million gallons was leaked.
Them: From the U.S. Coast Guard press release:
You: I regret engaging…
Potential does not equal actual.
Are you that incapable of thought?
They know there was a leak and they know how much the pipeline holds but they don’t know how much actually escaped.
The same press release you are quoting says, “The volume of discharged oil is currently unknown.”
But the headline says more than a million gallons of oil leaked into the gulf.
If you don’t understand how that is sensationalism, then you have more problems than this dumbass Internet argument.
I regret engaging because holy shit, so many of you are really fucking stupid.