{"id":132,"date":"2010-05-05T08:42:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T15:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/?p=132"},"modified":"2010-06-30T01:43:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T08:43:02","slug":"what-would-you-do-with-5000-barrels-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"What Would You Do with 5000 Barrels a Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just worked out some fun figures to lend perspective to the amount of crude oil hemorrhaging into the Gulf of Mexico every day:<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the volume of 35 average bedrooms (100 sq ft) filled up to the ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>If people could eat crude oil, the daily spillage could sustain Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The gasoline that could be yielded from the lost oil could top off the tanks of 3000 Hummers every day.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s enough fuel to drive that entire fleet of Hummers from Seattle to Niagara Falls over the course of a week.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s stop calling it a &#8220;leak&#8221;, okay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just worked out some fun figures to lend perspective to the amount of crude oil hemorrhaging into the Gulf of Mexico every day: It&#8217;s the volume of 35 average bedrooms (100 sq ft) filled up to the ceiling. If people could eat crude oil, the daily spillage could sustain Chicago. The gasoline that could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jighexadecimal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}