April 20, 2010. I was driving from Vermont to New Mexico. At a truck stop on I-81 I slid a credit card into a fuel pump. This triggered an audio speaker to blare advertisements and news while it pumped gas into my vehicle. It was then that I heard about an explosion on an oil platform off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico - a fire was raging, people suspected dead, no oil spilling. Two days later came news of the first, five-mile long oil slick. read more...