However, it looks so inelegant. I'll use the serial comma only when it is needed to avoid ambiguity, otherwise it can remain in its Oxford ghetto. I'm with Cambridge on this one, it should be avoided at all times unless, as illustrated in your example, it needs to be used for clarification.
Even then, I would strenuously urge re-writing the sentence rather than have such a downright mawkish construct in one's writing.
By the way, it seems strange to lecture people on grammar and then studiously avoid capital letters in one's post.
To summarise: Dark Blue Bad: Light Blue Good.
Death to serial commas!
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