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:
BP settles Gulf oil spill claims for record $18.7B. British oil giant BP has agreed to pay the federal government and five states up to $18.7 billion to settle environmental claims from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the largest settlement with a single entity in United States history.