I realize we lost our minds long ago about this but it really is incredible.

Knowing that this volcano erupts occasionally, we’ve still stored 6 million gallons of crude oil nearly at its base. And the oil is a secondary problem!

“Cook Inletkeeper, a conservation group, on Tuesday called on Chevron and state and federal agencies to remove the oil from the tanks to protect Cook Inlet’s valuable fisheries.”

Yep, that’s right, if something happens to the containment of this crude, more people’s livelihoods could be destroyed.

“Tom Evans, an Alaska Native from the lower Cook Inlet village of Nanwalek, said people depend on inlet fisheries to feed their families.

‘It makes no sense to store oil at the base of an erupting volcano,’ he said.”

Ya’ think?