There’s more than enough oil in this deposit for a lot of us.
There is the possibility that the well never gets capped and the gushing torrent of oil creates huge swathes of dead zones as time, currents and storms swirl it all around.
This is shaping up to be one of those nightmare scenarios that are even hard to game contingency plans for, let alone deal with when you have criminials and nincompoops running things.
We had a couple of weeks to mount an all hands all out effort to stop the oil hitting the coast.
And we didn’t.
Nightmare scenario it is. I must confess that, from time to time, I cannot help but wonder if we are looking at an era ender. I know I am crazy for thinking this, and I know that ecosystems can and do rebound, but what if everything fails, what if the oil field is much larger than anyone even knew, and what if this volcano gushes for the next 100 years...or more?
None of us can see the future, and I’m pretty sure none of us is being given the straight skinny on exactly what the situation is. Is this the big one? I dunno, but it’s the biggest one I’ve ever seen.