Just as the plug on the Deepwater Horizon drill site has begun to leak again, we’ve got another reminder that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is merely an especially large example of what’s going on in the sloppy oil industry all the time. Another oil spill has erupted, this one half way around the world.
Along the coast of China, two crude oil pipelines have exploded, creating a fire that lasted for 15 hours, and spewed enough oil to cover about 180 square kilometers of water.
