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:
As of late June 2010: 1  BP's costs of responding to spill and trying to contain it was $2 billion, and it will continue to go up. 2  More than 65,000 claims for real and personal property damage and lost income and profits, and over $100 million has been paid so far.