An oil rig with a litany of regulatory speeding tickets explodes in the Gulf of Mexico. British Petroleum and their experts dig deep into their brain trust and lessons learned to come up with a plan to put out the fire by blowing the rig up all over again. Alas, here was one case where two negatives did not make a positive and, had they let the thing burn it might have saved a whole lot of spilled milk. British Petroleum pulls out all stops over the next 4 ½ months to stop the mother of all oil spills.
Related Statistic: An estimated 4.9 million barrels of crude oil was unleashed on the surrounding ecosystems. At 160 litres per barrel and a 46% yield once refined to produce gasoline for our cars, that translates into 360.6 million litres of gasoline at the pumps (or roughly 3 times the average (112million litre) daily gasoline consumption of Canadian drivers).