Expensive Disasters

The Sinking Of The Titanic

Est: $150 Million ($150,000,000)

Wiehltal Bridge Tanker Explosion

Est: $358 Million

($358,000,000)

Metrolink / Union Pacific Collision

Est: $500 Million

($500,000,000)

B-2 Bomber Crash

Est:$1.4 Billion

($1,400,000,000)

Exxon Valdez Oil Tanker Spill

Est: $2.5 Billion

($2,500,000,000)

Piper Alpha Oil Rig

Est: $3.4 Billion

($3,400,000,000)

Space Shuttle Challenger

Est: $5.5$ Billion

($5,500,000,000)

+

Prestige Oil Spill

Est: $12 Billion

($12,000,000,000)

Space Shuttle Columbia

Est: $13 Billion

($13,000,000,000)

Chernobyl

Est: $200 Billion

($200,000,000,000)

This is the ferris wheel of Pripyat.

Here is an interesting site that chronicles the consequences of the meltdown.

The 2008 Election

Est: $1.1 Trillion in two months

($1,100,000,000,000)

More than half the cost of the September 11th attacks.

($2 Trillion according to high estimates).

Almost double the cost of the Iraq War

which is estimated at $600 Billion.

Here is a preview of your upcoming energy plan:

Barack Obama: The most expensive disaster in the world’s history.

(He still owes Chicago more than $1,700,000 for his victory celebration.)