Comment Re:FTA: (Score 1) 226
I question the validity of any site that thinks gallons and liters are interchangable
I'm about to nitpick, but....
Both of these statements are true: "The well has pumped millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf". "The well has pumped millions of liters of oil into the Gulf".
They are comparable if we're talking order of magnitude. I know 3.79 != 1, but when we're talking about "millions of" in a vague sense where nobody really knows what's going on, the real difference is between 10^6, 10^7, or 10^8. M*10^6 and N*10^6 are relatively interchangeable. If we knew that the spill was exactly x*10^y litres, I'd be agreeing with you.