I am in no way a scientist and didn't know where else to ask this so I thought this would be the best place to start. As far as the Oil Spill goes and planning for the worse. First question is...how much oil and at what flow rate do they generally extract oil from the earth? How big is this pocket in the Earth where we are extracting the oil? Does this oil lubricate the earths plates? If this oil is coming out faster than average then, could this possibly create a vacuum and if the oil pocket is large enough would it cause a collapse or maybe a implosion from the vacuum created from the fast flow rate that the oil is extracting? Reason I ask is I really beleive they created a problem that even the smartest human will not be able to solve anytime soon and please don't misunderstand me as a pessimistic person. I am more of a realist.
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