The bad news is that a ruptured tanker carrying 77,000 tons of fuel oil, almost
twice what the Exxon Valdez spilled, is sinking off the coast of Spain. The
full impact has yet to be seen, but it is clear that this is already a major
environmental disaster.

As long as we continue to rely on oil for energy there will be more devastating
oil spills and global warming will become catastrophic. The only solution is to
switch to clean renewable forms of energy like wind power and the clean green
fuels like hydrogen.

After dozens of spills like these (averaging more than one oil spill every two
weeks during the 1990s), what will it take for us to reduce our dependence on
oil?