Now Nature has created a strain of bacteria that eats it.
Chinese Scientists Discover Bacteria Eating Up Their Oil
Scientists have had critters like this in the lab for some time now. In fact, years back I remember talk about using these oil-eating bugs to clean up oil spills at sea. It seems Nature has gotten the same idea.
It’s interesting to ponder why a complex ecosystem like the Earth would spawn a bacteria that eats oil. It’s even more interesting to theorize why these bacteria are only now being discovered, when oil, at least easy to reach oil, is going down in quantity.