Oil Slick May Hit Coast This Weekend

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Oil Slick May Hit Coast This Weekend

April 29, 2010 | ISSUE 46•17

Following the explosion of a BP offshore drilling rig, 45,000 gallons of oil are pumping into the Gulf of Mexico each day, and the slick may hit the U.S. coast this weekend. What do you think?

I'm so jealous of that vast, fertile ecosystem of underwater marine life getting all that free oil."

Brendan Glass
Business Objects Consultant
This is God's punishment for our new law allowing homosexuals to crash oil tankers.

Sean Romano
Machinist
Why do oil rigs go so far into the ocean to drill, anyway? Wouldn't it be easier just to drill at the gas stations?"

Tara Abshire
Performance Engineer

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