BP Spill

Firstly. One mile is 5280 feet in length.

Secondly. A barrel contains 42 gallons.

April 20th started the worst oil spill in US history. It's a deep water well in the Gulf of Mexico.

So many things have gone wrong with this from deregulation of the oil industry; from the previous presidential administration; to the hubris of the oil companies to think that nothing like this would ever happen. The amount of oil gushing into the Gulf has been underestimated from the beginning.

The lives ruined. The economy suffering. The wildlife killed. Fix the damn pipe! Right?

But that isn't easy. It's one mile underwater. Doing anything at that depth is very difficult.

I grow tired of the story in the news, but I am waiting breathlessly for the whole thing to be solved.

Simply put, I want, hope and pray it gets resolved quickly.