When I read
this post by Pangaea, I decided to bring up this topic.
Here's the story: an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana exploded on April 20 (last Tuesday) and sank two days later. As a result, oil is now leaking from the oil deposit into the Gulf of Mexico, and has just reached the coast today. At this point, people are saying that this oil spill will be even worse than Exxon Valdez in Alaska in 1989.
I can see why this will be such a disaster. There's a lot of wildlife that will be affected. Also, a lot more people live there than in Alaska. Not to mention, the marshland of the Louisiana coast would be a very difficult place to remove oil.
I would have to agree with an analogy stated by one person in an article I just read.
A hurricane is like closing your bank account for a few days, but this here has the capacity to destroy our bank accounts.
What are your thoughts on this event?