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Take it as you will.. A story.

We change our own oil in our vehicles. We save it in oil cans for either burning on a fire or pouring along with gasoline down a hornet hole. We know it's "Bad for the environment" but we do it.

One year, we decided to re-roof our house. Considering it was 2500 sq ft, it was an arduous job. Now, for those that know about roofing, you use tar paper, which is asbestos with really thick petroleum tar (think super thick motor oil). One evening, we left a half of a roll lying outside cause we were too damned tired of taking it off the raised porch. It was on concrete, and not the grass.

The next morning (we started about 9am), the roll of tar paper was crawling - literally. There were hundreds of thousands of ants milling about everywhere. We go to shake them off, and lots of egg sacs fall out. But along with the white egg sacs, we notice that the inside of the roll is now pure white fibers. The ants ATE the petroleum tar.

We've noticed similar events, but never saw it happen over the course of 12 hours. We then tested it later with used motor oil... they ate it up too.

It just tells me that whenever nature creates something (petroleum), it also creates something to eat it. And sometimes nature creates stuff to eat man made stuff.



I don't think any serious research ever posited that nature can't survive the after-effects of human activity.

The issue is that if we allow motor oil, lead, mercury, etc to become part of the ecosystem, then nature will no longer be friendly to -us-.

Consider that we already live in a world where one must ration their fish intake for fear of mercury poisoning.




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