BP Oil Spill

Here is a parody of the ongoing BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The line at the end "they will need us again" holds an important lesson. Our enormous demand for gasoline and oil requires that we look for it and produce it in ever more difficult and inaccessible places. Until we can learn to control our thirst for oil and start saving on gas, disasters like this will keep on happening.

Gulf Oil Leak + Hurricane = Worse

What could happen if the BP Deepwater Horizon blowout is not stopped before the first hurricane of the year comes through the Gulf?

Deepwater Horizon Spill

Video of the oil plume escaping from the wreckage of the sunken Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. The estimate of 5000 barrels a day escaping into the ocean provided by BP, which also happens to be the corporation responsable, appears to be far too low.