Oil from Louisiana platform explosion to effect Florida Keys

As many of you know, on April 20th, an oil rig 50 miles off the coast of Lousiana exploded and then sank, leaking an estimated 700,000 gallons of crude oil into the water. Now any oil spill anywhere in the world is worrisome for the members of the Alternative Energy Center, but this spill is particularly troulesome to us. While the accident is being called the worst in the decade its ramifications will soon be hitting extremely close to home. According to reports from the NOAA, all the oil from the spill is heading directly for our island. If this oil reaches us, it would be nothing short of disastrous; The oil would destroy what makes Key West beautiful, its reefs and wildlife, and the hit that our tourist-based economy would take could take a long time to recover from.