What are the effects of an oil spill?

Answer 1

Oil spills effect the economy because:

It costs money to clean the oil up, and the oil is usually not recoverable.

Oil spills cause considerable damage to many jobs in many industries including:

• Fisheries and related aquatic industries
• Tourism
• Shipbuilding

Oil spills affect the local economy because the gasoline prices go up. Therefore those families that cannot afford the high gas prices cannot transport themselves in their own car.

Answer 2

it could destroy the plants and trees and can kill people. and it can destroy lots of the economy and the government will have to pay up the damages that the oil spill......everybody should of known that.

Answer 3

high cleanup costs, death of plants and animals, and damage to fishing economies

Answer 4

planketon will die and the animals that eat plankton will die like a dameno effect

it will hurt our animals and our water plus our seas or rivers that we swin in :(