This list claims the worst, almost by an order of magnitude was the Kuwaiti oilfield fires, which lost a billion barrels.

It set the world consumption back by only 11 days. So all of the disasters we have had so far, mean less then 3 weeks of business as usual. Small wonder, people harp on oil so much.

It’s truly tragic, it’s the overall best (cost, transportation, energy density, storage, usability) source of energy we know of.

