can oil eating bacteria be used as a weapon against our enemies?

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Mar 10, 2005
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america deploying an oil-destroying weapon makes as much sense as the wicked witch of the west starting a water balloon fight.
 

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Im betting this little ah heck can be given some carefully engineered genes and used to decimate oil supplies.

http://scienceblogs.com/oscillator/2010/06/08/oil-eating-bacteria/

Probably, but you'd better have an oil alternative that's 100% production ready before you introduce such a weapon. Wouldn't work out so well if it corrupted your own oil supplies and crippled your own economic and military machine.

And right now, there is no viable alternative to fossil fuels in any nation.
 
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