Has the one-time wonder fuel become the new asbestos – not to say mustard gas?

As long as you get the vice president's approval first, it'll be a slam dunk.

a cohesionless soil

No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms; / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof - to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.