100 Million Barrels of Oil in the Well, 100 Million Barrels of Oil
If one of those barrels should happen to spill ...
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Explainer thanks Tracy Hester of the University of Houston Law Center.
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Brian Palmer is Slate's chief explainer. He also writes How and Why and Ecologic for the Washington Post. Email him at explainerbrian@gmail.com. Follow him on Twitter.
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