FOXNews.com - BP Spill Hits a Somber Record as Gulf's Biggest

FOXNews.com - BP Spill Hits a Somber Record as Gulf's Biggest: "The oil that's spewed for two and a half months from a blown-out well a mile under the sea hit the 140.6 million gallon mark, eclipsing the record-setting, 140-million-gallon Ixtoc I spill off Mexico's coast from 1979 to 1980. Even by the lower end of the government's estimates, at least 71.7 million gallons are in the Gulf."

Surprising! Based on the reports, I thought it was a record long ago!

"But it's not the biggest in history.
That happened when Iraqi forces opened valves at a terminal and dumped as much as 336 million gallons of oil in 1991 during the Persian Gulf war, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration."