Texas and Louisiana didn’t have any oil spills from hundreds of off-shore wells during hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Similar pipelines could protect the beaches on the West Coast from being at the mercy of Chinese tankers bringing hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil to CA in the fog, but no-o-o-o. We couldn’t have that.
The ship was a container ship not an oil tanker. The fuel tank was breached, hence the spill.