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:
Average costs vary widely between different types of oil rigs, starting at around $20 million and ranging as high as close to $1 billion. The cost of oil rigs and drilling equipment invariably represents a very large capital expenditure for an oil producer.he average cost for offshore rigs can be as much as 15 to 20 times greater than the average cost for land rigs. The least-expensive offshore rigs typically cost nearly $200 million.