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:
Oil Spill FAQ. How will the BP disaster affect the U.S. economy? Efforts to clean up the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continued this week, but as of Thursday the well was still leaking 210,000 gallons a day. This raises questions about the effect of the spill on the oil industry, some of which we've tried to answer below.