Several times this week, we've heard President Obama and others refer to the Deepwater Horizon / Macondo spill as "unprecedented." But as we've mentioned previously on this blog and elsewhere that is hardly the case...
One only need to go back to August of last year and the Montara spill in Australia's ecologically sensitive East Timor Sea - which lasted 72 days - to appreciate how hard it is to control these situations.
In fact, a simple search on Google or Wikipedia will produce a lengthy list of oil spills of varying size and scale, some dating back as far as the 1940's.
So let's be honest here people... NO ONE should be surprised at what we are seeing transpire in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Let us close this post with a quote from the Spanish novelist George Santayana:
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."