The oil on beach or the oil that did get pumped into the tanker ship while BP was trying to figure out how to salvage the drilling instead of plugging the leak?<br><br>Ultimately, the military gets dibs on domestic oil production. The sludge in the domestic transportation is almost exclusively imported. The one exception to this is some of the domestic oil makes into the diesel stream.<br>
<br>And no; the oil itself isn't evil. Messy? hell yeah! An environmental nightmare? No doubt about it. <br><br>The only really good news is the oil that scraped up can actually be reclaimed for processing. The distillation process will still work with the seawater emulsified with the goop. It will be a challenge, but I'm sure BP will find a buyer for it.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Charles Shapiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Wait, who's actually using all this evil oil??<br>
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-- CHS<br>
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On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Geoffrey <<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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>> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a><br>
>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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>> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a><br>
>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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>> ----------------<br>
>> Hmm. Engineering idea: if the straw is shredded it becomes<br>
>> "pumpable". Then it can be "blown" like insulation to create a<br>
>> quick blanket and a really large wet vac can pull up the soggy mess.<br>
>><br>
>> Too bad kudzu can't be used....<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> how much crude oil can be stuffed inside an exec before they explode?<br>
><br>
> But then you'd have a bigger problem with all the sh?t that would be<br>
> spread all over...<br>
><br>
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