[traderrob6]

The Valdez ran ashore 3 miles from the coastline. Funny how they neglected to mention that.

[Smokin' Joe]

They neglected to maention a lot of things, like production rate (no numbers), mitigation efforts, any skimmers or other recovery efforts in progress, the riser tap in, and any hard numbers. Just hype.

Yhey did not mention the Ixtoc well in 1979, either, which blew for nine months before it was under control. Projections for this well are in the realm of far less than half of that time frame, although the jury is still out on that.

It is a pity this tripe passes for journalism, especially when there is sufficient evidence of critical thinking impairment in the population that I suspect half the people out there could be convinced by sufficient hype to have their nostrils removed to prevent the 'destruction of entire forests' for tissues.