Offshore Oil Drilling by the numbers:
105: Deaths caused by accidents on offshore drilling operations from 1996 to 2009
165: Spills caused by accidents on offshore drilling operations from 1996 to 2009
1,945: Injuries caused by accidents on offshore drilling operations from 1996 to 2009
1,515: Fires and explosions caused by accidents on offshore drilling operations from 1996 to 2009
$3,000,000,000: Cost estimate for cleanup of the BP spill, mostly covered by BP’s insurance
$5,598,000,000: BP’s first quarter profits in 2010
$100,000,000: Amount Iran would lose per day in oil revenue if America capped its carbon emissions
$154,000,000: Amount the oil and gas industry spent on Congress in 2009
$16,000,000: Amount BP spent on lobbying in Washington in 2009
210,000: Gallons of oil spilled per day at the BP platform site
162,000: Gallons of oil spilled per day in BP’s “worst-case scenario” exploration plan
315,000,000,000: Barrels of oil the U.S. consumes per year (approx)
2,726,000: Million metric tons of greenhouse gases emitted on U.S. roads every year (approx)
1.6%: Percentage of total global proven oil reserves the U.S. possesses
0.3%: Percentage of total global proven oil reserves in the U.S. outer continental shelf
1: Number of shut-off switches BP may have needed to purchase to prevent this accident
3-4: Months it could take to contain the spill