By the Numbers: Was Tony Hayward Right? — Transcript

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1. 0:00nothing but the truth of matter when BP
2. 0:02CEO Tony Hayward said the Deep waterer
3. 0:04Horizon oil spill was in his words
4. 0:07relatively tiny he had a point and
5. 0:10factually he was correct it depends
6. 0:13however on the comparisons one chooses
7. 0:16in describing the spill since the BP oil
8. 0:19rig exploded on April 20th as much as
9. 0:22125 million gallons of oil has gushed
10. 0:25into the Gulf compare that with the
11. 0:27mighty Mississippi River it Pour that
12. 0:30much water into the Gulf every 38
13. 0:33seconds if the oil were poured on a
14. 0:35football fields complete with end zones
15. 0:37it would measure nearly 100 yards high
16. 0:41if you put the oil and gallon milk jugs
17. 0:43and line them up they would stretch
18. 0:45about
19. 0:4610,800 mil that's a round trip from the
20. 0:49Gulf to London BP's headquarters and a
21. 0:52side trip from new Orland to Washington
22. 0:55for Hayward to testify it is a tragedy
23. 0:59cute comparison aside 125 million
24. 1:02gallons is a lot of oil or is
25. 1:07it convert it to gasoline which is what
26. 1:10Americans mostly use it for and you'd
27. 1:13have 58 million gallons of gas that's
28. 1:16the amount Americans burn every 3 hours
29. 1:19and 41 minutes another way to compare
30. 1:21the size of the spill is against dollars
31. 1:24BP has spent nearly $55 million lobbying
32. 1:28Federal officials in Washington since
33. 1:29since 2000 that's about 44 cents for
34. 1:33every gallon of oil it has spilled but
35. 1:36another big number also offers some
36. 1:38troubling news Hayward recently said the
37. 1:40leaking reservoirs believe to hold about
38. 1:432.1 billion gallons of oil that leaves
39. 1:46about 2 billion gallons left to spew if
40. 1:50it hasn't stopped Lee Powell the
41. 1:52Associated Press