Oxymoronic Oil

Here's a funny picture from the NYT.com, take a look at this:

Hey! That's a bird covered in oil from the recent oil spill in the Gulf, getting cleaned off by a bunch of environmentalist volunteers-- that's not funny, that's horrible!

Except for the fact that the volunteers are wearing rubber gloves and rubber suits, which are by-products of the oil refining process.

Today, some birds and some fish and some other sea creatures are dying from an accident on an oil rig. Just don't forget that without oil at all, there'll be no rubber protective gear for environmentalist clean-up crews, hospital workers, waste disposal technicians, etc.

Unless you like chopping down rubber trees?