Energized by Oil

摘要

Forty-One years ago an oil-drilling rig off the coast of Santa Barbara began retching brown slime. A couple of my high school friends and I, outraged that the salt-scented waves we surfed smelled like poison, pitched in on a campaign to stop offshore drilling. It was grunt work. And fun.rnThat Santa Barbara spill helped inspire the first Earth Day. This spring, days before Earth Day's 40th anniversary, a gusher of crude erupted 5,000 feet beneath the Gulf of Mexico.