[ptsal]

my goodness.... 1964 all over again

[DoughtyOne]

Nice campground and beach up there.

[smokingfrog]

Santa Barbara looked like this in 1906.

[rrrod]

OH NO!!!! we are all gonna die!

[MaxMax]

Oil seeps onto the beaches there every day. I'm sure they know how to deal with it.
Maybe they can fine GAYA and arrest Earth for suicidal tendencies.

[maddog55]

It was cleaned up immediately with a paper towel.

[9thLife]

When I lived there, oil clumps washed up on the beaches regularly. They called it "natural seepage".

It's not the end of the world.

[rey]

There was a story a few years ago about an oil spill thought to be from a sunken ship, tank, or old well that was leaking into the Pacific. The first or second page article went on about how those responsible will have to pay, when caught.

A week later there was a small paragraph deep inside the paper about how the source of the leak was a fissure in the earth’s surface that was allowing a natural oil deposit to leak.

[Dusty Road]

From the link they say 10,000 gallons which equals less that 250 barrels, that’s just a little over a full transport load. Within 24 hours most of that will flash off to the atmosphere and will continue to flash off over time. A ground spill takes longer to flash off due to different depths in the oil but a water spill because of the way it fans out to a fine layer flashes off quickly. Pour a gallon of gas out on a flat concrete surface and watch how fast it evaporates, a barrel of oil contains 20 to 22 gallons of gas. A water spill is easier to clean up than a ground spill as far as recovery of oil lost, if you can catch it before it hit’s the shore line.