As anyone who's ever dressed a salad in vinaigrette will testify, oil and water just don't mix.
That's especially true of crude oil and sea water that supports sea lifeforms from fish to birds to plankton to mammals.
So when we discover that 42,000 gallons of oil are leaking daily from a stricken well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, and that it could take months to stem the flow, a little concern is entirely natural.
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