At the top of the monster wave, they could suddenly see for miles. “This incredible moon was out,” Matthews said. “There was this oceanscape. These mountains of water. Storm clouds. It was a thing of awesome beauty.” It lasted for only a second or two. Then the Alert tipped down the other side, and the whole tug shuddered as it dived into the trough. The window filled with the view below the waterline, a Pacific green. It looked like an aquarium.
So here's an interesting question that I haven't heard addressed in the media: Which is worse for the environment, high or low oil prices? Low oil prices encourage usage, but they severely discourage fracking, deep water/arctic drilling, tar sands extraction, and all that other nastiness that is acutely bad, and not just global warming bad.