Help me Mr Math! How long will the current spill need to flow to create that kind of damage......?
25,000 barrels day X 40 days = 1 million barrels.
So 8 times as long to get the same volume.
But you said "create the same damage". In dollar terms, Iraqi marshes are cheap and US marshes are expensive. So the 1 million barrels already spilled have likely surpassed the 8 million barrels in Iraq in terms of financial cost of damage caused