What Oil?

A new report published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that a massive layer of coagulated oil remains on the Gulf of Mexico’s seafloor nearly five years after the Deepwater Horizon sank and spilled some 5 million barrels of oil in the area.

The “bathtub ring,” a layer of water containing high levels of oil, covers 1,200 square miles about a half mile below the surface. The researchers also say that a “fallout plume” of oil particles sank into sediment as much as a mile below the surface.

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Well, yeah. Did anyone think that shit they sunk was just going to magically disappear?

BP released a statement Monday criticizing the report over the chemical fingerprinting used to identify the oil on the seafloor.

Of course they did.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.