re: #33 Walter L. Newton
Quoting Bagua who was quoting someone… The poison is in the dose.
Oil is a naturally occurring fossil, a relic of dead micro-organisms of ages past. The amazing thing is the number of people who deny this (all YEC, for example.)
Anyway, there are lots of oil spills of much smaller scale all over the world. It’s a shame but usually doesn’t cause great damage.