So when they tell you that we should drill in ANWR because its “safe” they are telling you a load of lies. Seems no one notices as a quarter million gallons of oil just sort of leaked out of a pipe on the north slope of Alaska last week. Oops.

An oil spill discovered at Prudhoe Bay field is the largest ever on Alaska’s North Slope region, American officials say.

They estimate that up to 267,000 gallons (one million liters) of crude leaked from a corroded transit pipeline at the state’s northern tip.

The spill was detected on March 2 and plugged. Local environmentalists have described it as “a catastrophe.”

In 1989, the Exxon Valdez shipping disaster spilled 11m gallons (42m liters) of oil onto the Alaskan coast.

“I can confirm it’s the largest spill of crude oil on the North Slope that we have record of,” Linda Giguere, from Alaska’s state department of environmental conservation, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.

The estimate is based on a survey conducted several days ago at the site where the leak was discovered, officials say.

Thats a lot of oil to just leak out of a pipe. Is no one paying any attention at all.

Cletus: “hey billy this here dial says we is about a quarter million gallons short on this here pipe, think we should do anythin bout this?”
Billy: “umm nope, American gladiator is on.”

I mean seriously what the hell.