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	*"The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is no different from your neighbor dripping some oil on the ground when changing oil in his car."		*"The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is no different from your neighbor dripping some oil on the ground when changing oil in his car."
	(the comparison is between things differing by many orders of magnitude: Deepwater Horizon spilled 210 million US gal (790 million l) of oil, your neighbor might spill perhaps a pint.) <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence ~~False Equivalence~~</ref>		(the comparison is between things differing by many orders of magnitude: Deepwater Horizon spilled 210 million US gal (790 million l) of oil, your neighbor might spill perhaps a pint.) <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence]</ref>