Potential does not equal actual.

Are you that incapable of thought?

They know there was a leak and they know how much the pipeline holds but they don’t know how much actually escaped.

The same press release you are quoting says, “The volume of discharged oil is currently unknown.”

But the headline says more than a million gallons of oil leaked into the gulf.

If you don’t understand how that is sensationalism, then you have more problems than this dumbass Internet argument.

I regret engaging because holy shit, so many of you are really fucking stupid.