The Santa Barbara County oil spill may have released 105,000 gallons

The oil pipeline that ruptured in Santa Barbara County, California, on Tuesday may have spilled as much as 105,000 gallons of crude, with tens of thousands entering the ocean, officials with Plains All American Pipeline said. The company came up with the estimate by looking at the 24-inch-wide underground line's elevation and flow rate, which averages roughly 50,400 gallons an hour, the Los Angeles Times reports, and they believes 21,000 gallons made it into the water off of Refugio State Beach ...