That’s how many barrels of mud—about 1,260,000 gallons—BP pumped into the well before giving up.

Christopher Frizzelle was The Stranger's print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He was the editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2016, and edited the story by Eli Sanders that won a 2012 Pulitzer...

14 replies on “Number of the Day: 30,000”

  1. Something something Obama Day 50 something you libs bla bla something something… you get the idea

  2. SOMEONE PAY ATTENTION TO ME! CAN ANYONE SEE THE THINGS I AM POSTING?!?!?

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  3. @10: It’s not “mud” in the clay-and-silt-and-water sense. It’s pretty much any liquid which, when compressed suddenly or pushed through a strained leak, actually resists further flowing through that resisted leak. “Drilling mud” is often materials that are hardly ecologically neutral.

  4. Do you seriously take everything at face value, Telsa, or do you just enjoy being pedantic whenever the slightest opportunity to do so arises?

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