Oil Oil Everywhere......

From a satellite in the atmosphere on Sunday, this is an image of the oil slick caused when the British Petroleum owned oil rig, The Deepwater Horizon, after it exploded and eventually sank. Since this picture was taken another 60,000 or so gallons of raw oil have escaped from the uncapped drill hole left by the floating platform. As nasty as it is, it doesn't hold a candle to the infamous Exxon Valdez spill in Prudhomme Bay, Alaska. That behemoth released 11,000,000 gallons of oil into the sea. For this spill to equal that one the uncapped hole on the gulf's bottom would have to continue to discharge 42,000 gallons a day unabated until Thursday, January 13, 2011. Not much chance in that happening.

So LOOK at the area covered by this relatively small spill. And imagine what it would be like if it were to cover 26 x's as much of the Gulf of Mexico. That's what the spill of the Exxon Valdez did to the waters off of Alaska.

And if you ask me, this looks oily and slimy enough as it is.