[crusty old prospector]

Of all of the quadrillions of barrels of oil that the earth has produced, and is still producing I might add, only a small fraction of it is trapped into what we call fields. The rest, Heaven forbid, makes it to the surface due to buoyancy and is a naturally-occuring substance. Ever seen a satellite photo of the Gulf of Mexico on a calm day and seen all of the oil slicks? They ain't from BP.

[crusty old prospector]

[HiTech RedNeck]

While I’m not familiar with the pictures, it was well known that prior to the Gulf spill, much natural oil leaked into the water. Over possibly millions of years, that’s how nature learned how to cope with it. Busting the oil up with detergent and solvent like they did in the Gulf spill hopefully hastened this process, but the natural resources to digest it were already there. By the way what has been going on with the Gulf and the spilled oil, whatever’s left of it?