Oil spills escalated in this decade

[JohnWxy]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-06-07-oil-spill-mess_N.htm

The number of spills from offshore oil rigs and pipelines in U.S. waters more than quadrupled this decade, a trend that could have served as a warning for the massive leak in the Gulf of Mexico, according to government data and safety experts.

The spills — and the amount of oil that leaked — grew markedly worse even when taking increases in production into account, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data shows. The leaks came as the oil industry repeatedly claimed that offshore drilling was never safer.

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[pscot]

1. The deeper we go

the more dangerous it gets. This is byblow of peak oil. It's all of a piece with the damage from tar sands and fracking. We're addicted to a deadly poison and we're willing to kill the panet to satisfy our jones.