For the control of certain bacterial diseases of plants, streptomycin was indeed a silver bullet. Unfortunately, just as the emergence of bacterial strains resistant to antibiotics has limited their performance in clinical settings, streptomycin resistance has destabilized plant disease control.
Average costs of the oil spill clean-up for the oil disasters listed in the table work out at $161 Million, this does not include the estimated costs of $12.5 Billion to clean up the Gulf of Mexico, as this is unprecedented and would give a false value. Reference Web:
The average amount of fuel released is just over 100 gallons. The average cost per incident is nearly $15,000. Fleets can expect about 1 percent of their power units to have a spill per year, he says. Even if another vehicle is responsible for the accident, the trucker is liable for spill damages and clean-up costs. If you have care, custody and control of a material at the time of loss, as a matter of law, you're a spill generator, Moses explains.