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Originally Posted by The Sportsman
well.. both of their arguments are flawed... oil "eating" microbes have increased exponentially over the past year and a half and swamps/marsh is natures own sewer treatment facility which is actually more efficient than the ones humans have made.
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They can increase exponentially in two days time. Just because something CAN break down a substance, doesn't mean that is all they consume. Trees take up CO2, but what people fail to realize is that they also give off some CO2, they are not some huge CO2 'sponge'. These are not some science fiction bacteria that just engulf a gallon of substance a day, there simply is not enough of them to do the job, and after the dispersant was added, that likely changed the composition of the oil and the bacteria will not consume that.