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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (73656)	5/23/2010 4:16:11 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 74559

Olive oil is four times as toxic as butter, but that doesn't mean it would be a problem in the ocean. <The emulsifier itself is fours times as toxic as the crude oil. So it's possibly a mistake to have used the emulsifier. > Even though olive oil has toxins in it, I still eat it and it is good for me. Is the dispersant they used really so toxic? The worst thing about using emulsifier is that it's expensive and it wastes oil. I'd have thought a boom in a circle around where the oil is floating up with skimmers sucking it into centrifuges would be the most economic answer, and perhaps they are doing that. I haven't really paid much attention and just catch the odd news report. Maybe it's drifting too far to do that. I have some surfactant for oil spills in the shed; Castrol's OSD9 as I recall. I don't recall dispersants as being particularly toxic. As you can see here, considerable effort goes into avoiding harm from oil spills: cawthron.org.nz Government bureaucrats are all over it; of course and rightly so as their job is to protect the commons against the depredations of barbarians. Mqurice

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