Environmentalists, supported by the mainstream media, prefer to express the BP Gulf oil spill in gallons — namely, as a 200-million-gallon spill.
Petroleum traffic is normally expressed in barrels. But 200 million gallons sounds much more dangerous than the 5 million barrels that were spilled — which, by the way, is about the daily quantity of our petroleum imports.
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