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Don't Drill, Baby, Don't Drill

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus4/30/2010 9:39:07 am PDT

re: #44 dugmartsch

I’ve been under the impression that the ideal would be just the opposite - to try to get the oil to clump into tar balls, and not be dissolved in water.

The hundreds of chemicals (mostly organic) that compose “oil” are pretty toxic, and simply dissolving them would mean they would be ingested by various organisms, and be especially bad for shell animals like oysters, no?