That huge column of black smoke, that’s pretty horrible right?

Well lets assume that the depot was totally full ( I don’t know if it was no one seems to have mentioned this ) that’s 60,000,000 gallons of oil. There are 34.97 gallons in each barrel of oil, so that’s at most 1,715,756.36 barrels that have gone up in smoke. By massive coincidence this is pretty much exactly the UK’s daily oil consumption. So we’re making one of those huge columns of black smoke every day. Pretty horrible right?

[Added the next day] Diggory emailed and pointed out that oil burned in a controlled and efficient manner is probably better, well less bad anyway, for the envioronment than just having a big bonfire. He’s right of course.

I’ll fix the comments tonight, I mean it this time.