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This seems strange to me. Oil needs to be pretty hot to burn, doesn't it? I heard on CNN that the oil slick is over a mile DEEP. Won't the oil underwater remain unburned? And won't the surface cool as the oil spreads, leaving most of it unburned as well?
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The oil slick is not over a mile deep the oil rig was pumping/drilled for oil that was more than a mile below the surface...and I assume when the rig collasped and sunk it snapped the line off somewhere below the surface. My assumption may be wrong...and I do not think that anyone knows exactly what happened at this point...other than it is a blowout that is pumping approximately 200,000 gals of crude into the ocean.