In the Exxon Valdez incident, how much oil was spilled?
The largest oil spill to occur in the United States so far was the Exxon Valdez spill into Prince William Sound, Alaska, in March 1989. The Exxon Valdez, a medium-sized oil tanker, ran aground on a reef to cause this spill of almost 11 million gallons of crude oil. While this was a big spill, it was actually only a small fraction of the oil less than 2 percent of what the United States uses in one day!
