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To: Road Walker who wrote (24810)	1/11/2011 4:00:05 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86355

That more oil seeps in to the oceans naturally than from offshore drilling is an reasonably important point... Dilution. Sure, but natural spills are also going to be undiluted at certain places and times, they aren't all so small as to be diluted before they can have any harmful effects. And the very large drilling spills (which are more concentrated than the much more common small spills, or the spills from use or disposal, or the natural seeps), get diluted over time as well. People like to talk about long lasting effects, but it doesn't take all that much time for the spills to mostly dilute down to the level where they are comparable to natural seepage. Dilution doesn't make the point, stupid, obtuse, or refuted.