Drilling Quiz
1: How many significant oil spills did Secretary of the Interior Kempthorne say occurred because of hurricanes Katrina and Rita when promoting the overturn of the current moratorium on OCS drilling?
A) Zero
CORRECT! Secretary Kempthorne's misleading statistic claims that there were no significant spills following the hurricanes. But as we learned above, hundreds of thousands of gallons spilled offshore- sounds pretty significant!
If you picked c, you were citing the ACTUAL number of offshore spills[ 1], and if you put d, you were probably thinking of the total number of spills on and offshore, according to the Houston Chronicle[ 2].
B) 25
C) 124
D) 595
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