Nothing in life is 100% safe.

The question we have to answer is how we will provide energy to the world. Today, tomorrow, and in the future.

Folks with long term memories will recall what happened to the US the last time shut off every shipments to Asia.

We have to make the switch, soon, to energy sources other than petroleum but we have to explicitly plan how to get from here to there without crashing the global economy.

And, the options such as pipelines and tanker trucks also crash, burn, and leak.