[Conan the Librarian]

You could extrapolate this out. If they can make a bug that excretes oil, then, they could create one that excrete gasoline (87 octane).

It's not that much different.

The book about bacteria that ate petrol was “The Plastic Eaters” but I don't remember who wrote it.

Andromeda ate plastic if I remember right.

[cake_crumb]

Um...But we DO not only have, but USE a bug that eats oil spills. AND the world didn’t turn into black ooze. But we’re not allowed to use them often. Because the world might turn into black ooze.