\nthat has been burning in the Gulf of Mexico since an explosion on Tuesday has
\nsunk, CNN
\nreports<\/a>.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The human cost<\/strong>: 17 workers injured (3 critically) and 11 missing. <\/p>\n The ecological cost<\/strong>: Crude oil is leaking from at a rate of about <\/p>\n (Decommissioned oil <\/p>\n The financial cost<\/strong> to Transocean, the Houston company that owns the <\/p>\n The political cost<\/strong>: This makes President Obama’s recent decision to <\/p>\n The timing<\/strong>: Happy Earth Day, Gulf of Mexico!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To repeat<\/a>, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n Hey, look: Denver has a bike-sharing program<\/a><\/p>\n Massey denies time off for workers to attend funerals of mine victims<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe Coast Guard is searching for them.<\/p>\n
\n8,000 barrels per day, Coast Guard Petty Officer Ashley Butler told CNN. The
\nCoast Guard expects possible leaks of up to 700,000 gallons of diesel fuel “but
\ncan do little to protect the environment until the fire is out.”<\/p>\n
\nrigs are sometimes deliberately sunk and become fish habits, but this one
\nobviously wasn’t decommissioned.)<\/p>\n
\nrig, and BP, which leases it: Don’t care. The hell with them.<\/p>\n
\nsignificantly
\nramp up<\/a> offshore drilling, appear, well, more stupid. The real test is
\nstill whether
\nhis concession<\/a> wins enough Senate votes for a clean energy bill.<\/p>\n
\nthe costs of fossil fuel-related disasters need to be part of our national
\nenergy conversation. They’re all the more reason to kick our fossil-fuel
\naddiction. They’re all the more reason to replace fuels that come from hell-below- ground
\ndrilling and mining-with fuels that come from the heavens-wind and sun rays and
\ntides.<\/p>\n