This is the current oil spill we never heard about rather than the necessity of fossil fuels to flood the world with cheap energy. Meanwhile the real costs never really included.

An oil spill first reported on Oct. 2, 2021, has released thousands of gallons of crude oil into southern California coastal waters. The source is believed to be a leak in an underwater pipeline connected to an oil drilling platform 17.5 miles offshore. Oil has washed ashore in Huntington Beach and Newport Beach and into coastal marshes. Orange County has requested a federal disaster declaration. Charles Lester, director of the Ocean and Coastal Policy Center at the University of California Santa Barbara’s Marine Science Institute, explains the scope of this spill.

Source: California’s latest offshore oil spill could fuel pressure to end oil production statewide