OH yeah your 'study' that took a look at the most catastrophic of spills (16 over more than 20 years) that was conducted by a lawyer, a retired 'oil and gas engineer' who is really just an activist who wants to ban all oil and gas, a dermatologist etc.  5 people who have ZERO credibility with anyone in doing the sort of study that they published.  

But of course you have to use the extreme.  So lets use a counter extreme.  Everyone has been to a gas station.  It contains thousands of gallons of gasoline which burns better than any oil or gas releasable from a oil and gas well. It also explodes better.   So if we were to follow your logic the nearest safe distance to any house would be 1/2 a mile to 2.5 miles from a gas station to the nearest house or occupied building.  Such a requirement is obviously ludicrous.

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