Tag: By Mark Engler

Mark Engler: The Gulf at the Gas Station: Can We Calculate the True Cost of Our Dependence on Oil?

August 2010

“Calculating the cost of a destroyed ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico…means putting a price tag on things that are not meant to be priced. If you accept that a harbor seal’s life is indeed worth seven hundred dollars, and a killer whale’s three hundred thousand dollars, pretty soon you must accept that your own life has a price tag on it as well.”