The oil song (steve forbert)
My goodness. In the last decade alone one billion gallons of oil were spilled. The 3.3 million barrels flowing into the Mexican Gulf inspired Steve Forbert to write the oil song. “It was oil! oil!, pouring in the sea, oil, oil, don’t buy it at the station, you can get it now for free, just come on down to the shoreline, where the water used to be.” Great song, great tragedy. The present oil spill in the US beats the one of the Mexican Gulf by 3.9 million barrels. Well, it’s all a matter now of naming, blaming and….claiming. “US lawyers are treating this as the biggest all-you-can-eat buffet that has ever been laid out before them”, writes the Wall Street Journal. BP will have to pay dearly. Estimates run up to 25 billions of dollars. But let us not forget  that the oil problem is a many-headed monster. The US, for example, for giving out the permit for drilling, for sloppy inspections. And what about us? For this mindmap (click to enlarge) I found out that the world consumes (spills?) almost 90 million barrels a day!

Listen to Steve Forbert’s oil song: http://steveforbert.bandcamp.com/album/the-oil-song-2010