User talk:Truthhunt

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Yes: coincidentally I have a pile of books right next to me because I just wrote the History of Santa Barbara, California. There are some different figures "floating" out there for the spill. According to Gayle Baker, Santa Barbara, Another Harbor Town History (2002) it was 77,000 barrels. I don't know where she got that figure, but the County of Santa Barbara's page on the spill has 80,000 to 100,000. I've seen 100,000 in print and 80,000 in print but I'm not finding them at the moment. Antandrus (talk) 22:12, 25 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Something else occurs to me. How many gallons in a barrel?  I didn't even notice the units were wrong!  Sorry about that ... Antandrus  (talk) 22:17, 25 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Here's yet another source that gives 200,000 gallons. He's in the geography department at UCSB but not faculty; I don't know where he got his numbers.  Later on the same page he uses the units barrels.  Other than those discrepancies it's a pretty good article on the spill.  Antandrus  (talk) 22:35, 25 August 2008 (UTC)