No numbers at the article. Hmmm. Sure, it can easily be worse as 'spills' go than the Exxon Valdez. The Valdez was a boat wreck, the cargo was oil, and the quantity limited.
This isn't a 'spill' so much as an uncontrolled well, a blowout.
They're working on getting the well under control.
11 posted on 05/22/2010 7:12:08 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)