[HiTech RedNeck]

I was at an eatery in Kentucky where the water tasted like kerosene... rather authentic I’d say.

Clearly we want to try to avoid situations where extraction activities cause significant amounts of stuff to get into aquifers that otherwise wouldn’t get into them. No sense in making aquifers unusable. But the idea that Mother Nature can’t cause pollution quite handily her own self... that’s nonsense.

[crusty old prospector]

Of all of the quadrillions of barrels of oil that the earth has produced, and is still producing I might add, only a small fraction of it is trapped into what we call fields. The rest, Heaven forbid, makes it to the surface due to buoyancy and is a naturally-occuring substance. Ever seen a satellite photo of the Gulf of Mexico on a calm day and seen all of the oil slicks? They ain't from BP.