The seaport would be locked, and no commercial ships can go there and pick up all the food. Supply will be stopped. We calculated over 200,000 families would be affected, losing their livelihood, probably for a generation, 25 years. The clean up would have cost 20 billion, thats the best estimate that we received. In 1989, the Exxon Valdez Spill leaked Hundreds Of Thousands of gallons of crude into the gulf of alaska, a slick that covered over 1,000 miles of coastline. Even now, pockets of oil are still being discovered. Yet on yemens fso safer, four times as much oil. This is big. And i looked at the first price tag of, how are we going to raise 141; million . In the end, after two years and between 23 countries, private companies and even the general public, enough funds were raised to launch an operation to transfer the oil. An Elementary School in bethesda, maryland. Kids, six, seven, eight years old, heard about this and went out and raised. They sold lemonade or whatever they cou