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 full cost of the clean up then was $4 billion, more than 600 times what the oil lost was worth at the time. In the Gulf of Mexico case, which at the time of writing is still ongoing, a picture of the full costs of the disaster is beginning to emerge. The first cost is the cost of the 3 million or so litres of oil per day being lost. The clean-up and containment costs are in the order of $5â10 million per day.