  A natural oil seep in Ventura County, CA California
environmental group advocates drilling to reduce oil pollution
on local beaches              Comments     Threshold   By CZroe
on 8/31/2008 11:25:21 PM , Rating: 2 I'm all for drilling, but
is this technically "pollution" if it is natural? I mean, I'm
sure that it can't be a good thing when combined with the man-
made oil spills and there may be a "balancing out" effect in
preventing it this way, but it's hard to argue that we are
saving the environment from itself if "seepage" is natural,
long-running, and on-going.  Oil is a valuable resource that is
finite and I am all for recovering what would otherwise go to
waste as long as the impact is minimal. They should do studies
into seepage to see if any life forms or ecosystems, however
small, rely on it and see if they can survive on the oil
introduced to the sea by man alone.  I also believe that the
bans have more to do with conserving our supply until our
economy is absolutely desperate as a means of buyi