San Francisco Bay in Peril, when are we going to be ready for oil spills?

All of you know that there was a big oil spill in the bay. A cargo ship Costco Busan, touched a bay bridge column. The impact did not damage the bridge, but it opened a 90-foot gash in the hull of the ship and ruptured its fuel tank, dumping 58,000 gallons into the bay, fouling miles of coastline and killing dozens of shorebirds.
A lot of people are cleaning it up, shore line and the sea birds. This has interrupted many a life 's needs around the bay. Politicians came, Cost guard was already there! Our own good people in San Francisco and surrounding cities, like fire fighters were not able to help because of bureaucracy. There were volunteers that have help rebelliously because of the same bureaucracy.
One way or the other, this is incompetency in our way of handling a small incident like this. Why can't we handle this type of spills better. Can't we surround the spill with tubes that usually used in spills. I think this is something that we really need to improve on. Emergencies like this should be handled in a better manner.
I am very saddened and I have not even really read about the Prussian spill yet!

Tags: Oil Spill, costco busan, san francisco, san francisco bay