Depending on who you listen to, one or more of the following may be true:

1. Bacteria are the largest consumers of petroleum and are eating half of the gulf's oil.
   
2. Bacteria are nature's safety cleansers who removed all the oil spill from the BP incident, naturally, effectively, and for free.
   
3. GMO Bacteria can be patented and used for oil spills. They are designed to have much more aggressive growth rates and have the advantage of toxic byproducts that will turn earth into a desert while consuming all oils and fats on the planet, including that in your body. GMO products are “green”, environmentally friendly, and completely harmless when they escapes to the environment where apparently it spontaneously chooses to stop eating oil because it is so well behaved.
   
4. GMO Bacteria eat garbage and produce petroleum as a byproduct. Soon there will be unlimited oil and no garbage. The bacteria eat only true garbage and never mutate. It is safe. Perfectly safe. Green and environmentally friendly.
   
5. Natural Bacteria live deep within the earth and are producing oil as we speak. The oil will never run out.
   
6. Engineered Bacteria improve the quality of oil in existing wells.

Which if any are right? Who knows.

Every time I go to fill the lawn mower from the plastic gas can, there are from dozens to hundreds of ticks under and around the cap that rush out and leap on my arm and start crawling up it. This has happened with more than one gas can. Clearly ticks are attracted to gasoline fumes.