Exxon Valdez

The biggest oil spill in history... It's what? It's Exxon Valdez! I think this oil spill was pretty detrimental to the public image of petroleum. As the industry got detrimentally hit. Extremely injured. Pictures of flightless birds with oil entangled all around their feathers is a pretty sickening picture to see if you realize the cause was because of humans. It's quite terrible, yet, somehow, scientists were able to produce a bacteria (or alter a currently existing one) that fed on hydrocarbons. I thought this was extremely amazing - they genetically modified a bacteria to feed on oil!? Then the thought hit me: what if in the future some eco-terrorist organization dumps large amounts of this bacteria into an oil well? Then that whole pool would  be contaminated. I'm sure it's not likely as they need more than just hydrocarbons to survive but it's a pretty fancy situation.