92,208,506 Gallons of Oil in the Gulf

Around 4PM today I got the news I'd been praying to hear for almost 3 months. The Gulf oil spill has been stopped for the moment. In only 87 days, over 92 MILLION gallons of oil are in the Gulf.

Just out of curiosity, I looked this up. Thanks to Robert Fogt at 

http://www.onlineconversion.com/forum/forum_1060787814.htm

by Robert Fogt on 08/14/03 at 03:59:50

"I found data for:

Oil, petroleum
Specific Gravity 0.88

That means that it weighs 0.88 kilograms/liter

1 liter = 0.2641721 gallon [US, liquid]
0.88 / 0.2641721 = 3.3312 kilograms/gallon
1 kilogram = 2.2046226 pound
3.3312 * 2.2046226 = 7.344 pounds/gallon

1 gallon weighs 7.344, 7000 gallons would weigh
7000 * 7.344 = 51,408 pounds

For the PSI, I am assuming you mean when the tank is overfilled far enough and the pressure on the panels becomes great enough, they blow to allow the overflow to exit.  Something like that.

But, I am not sure how you would go about calculating that."

So that means that 676,164,974 pounds of oil went into the Gulf. Over half of a billion pounds of oil.

God help us. We sure need it.