Steve Maher writes: "An easy trap to fall into, Dave. As I recall, there have been lotsa tanker spills over the years. I don't recall all the companies involved, besides Exxon at Pr. William Sound of course. But I'd be surprised if Exxon was the only one that ever spilled oil and messed up a shoreline. Wasn't there once a big spill (more than one?) off the Santa Barbara coast, involving a tanker, an oil platform, or a combination of the two?" Steve, it was a leaking well, but you've got it backward- Exxon guesses that we want cheap gas and builds cheap tankers and employs drunks to command 'em. As good capitalists, David and I, and others, decline to do business with Exxon now and forever more. Maybe Exxon goes out of business, maybe not, but we vote with our wallets. It is, after all, our money. You ALWAYS have a choice when you're spending your money. Shell, by contrast, doesn't use oil from the North Slope of Alaska and has publicly stated that whether or not there is oil in the Alaska Wildlife Refuge, they don't want any of it. They also do a pretty thorough job cleaning up their spills. So I buy their gas. The Exxon Valdez spill is several times smaller than what is apparently poured into holes in the ground every year in California, but as spills go, it was still a pretty big one. A real accomplishment.
Bill
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