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Oil Spill Cleanup Workers Include Many Very, Very Small Ones

Posted August 05, 2010 7:46 AM

From NYT > Science:

Among the hidden stars of the gulf cleanup is an oil-hungry bacterium that Dr. Seuss could have named — Alcanivorax. It and fellow microbes are breaking down a significant amount of the oil that gushed into the environment from BP's runaway well, scientists say. The microbial feasting is known as biodegradation.

Original article published in the Science section of the New York Times.

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08/05/2010 12:00 PM

I need some of those microbes to scatter on my engine.

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08/05/2010 12:53 PM

And you can use the methane the little buggers emit to increase your MPG!

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08/05/2010 12:57 PM

I shouldn't have said that. I just know a fuel-saver scam artist is now going to start selling outrageously-priced packets of dirt labeled "Bio-Boost 3000" to sprinkle under your hood.

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08/05/2010 1:44 PM

Man I got ripped. I thought "Bio-Boost 3000" was legit.

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08/05/2010 3:10 PM

Oh, it is! See, the problem is you also need to buy our "LifeForce Magnetic Accellerator". It uses nano-magnets to properly align the oil molecules so that the Bio-Boost 3000 microbes can ingest them.

And as luck would have it, LifeForce is on sale today! Call now!
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08/06/2010 11:48 AM

Will it work with my Turbinator that swirls the air in my intake manifold?
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