It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is m…

Sylvia Earle
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It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.
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