I've lately noticed my couch/tv time increasingly devoted to railroading documentaries. There is one about WWII, how the railroads had to gear up for transporting raw materials, fuel, weapons, machinery and troops. What caught my attention was the oil tankers, headed to ports for shipment to our Brit buddies.How long would it take Russia (or hell, Bolivia if they really put their minds to it) to sink the ocean tanker as it headed east?
That got me to thinking about offshore oil platforms. Blowing up a couple of those would really ruin someones coastline. The nazis probably would have, but there were no offshore oil platforms back then best I can tell.
That got me thinking about WWII and oil again. Surely a few of those tankers were sunk by nazis, and I doubt there were clean-up crews, so that oil had to go somewhere. Yet there are no big splashy stories on TV/MSM about lingering environmental damage from all that, not to mention skies being filled with supercharged bombers dropping incendiaries to light up entire cities. Government programs in action.