ABC radio news was hyperventilating about this last week. 100,000 gallons strikes me as a pretty minor spill.
Such a trivial spill that CNN wants to make into a global crisis.
Millions of barrels of oil naturally leak in the Santa Barbara channel every year. Nature takes care of it naturally.
With today’s technologies for mitigation and remediation, together with the popular and political sentiment that they be used, will nature recover? Yes. Time to move on.