[Candor7]

This is good news. It means oil is a renewable resource.

I'll keep checking my back 40.

[Mount Athos]

maybe they will find aliens eating in taquerias on Titan, that would explain the methane

[GW and Twins Pawpaw]

So what will the greens whine about when they learn that we don't have to conserve petroleum? Will we drill in ANWR? Enquiring minds want to know!

[razorgirl]

"If petroleum and natural gas are abiotic as we maintain in 'Black Gold Stranglehold,'" Corsi commented, "then the 'peak oil' fear that we are going to run out of oil may have been based on a giant misconception."

Peak oil is based on what is actually getting pumped out of the ground. Whether it was from dead dinos, or crushed rocks, the sobering realities are that the current most productive oil fields are the ones discovered in the 50s or earlier. Oklahoma and Indonesia fields have already past their peak production.

[randog]

The University of New Hampshire has an interesting program in which they propose to grow oil-producing algae. They say it could provide up to 10% of the nation's oil needs:

http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html

Kinda puts a kink in the "oil-is-a-finite-resource" mantra.

[justshutupandtakeit]

I thought it was long known that Titian had methane. Isn't it frozen?

[WestVirginiaRebel]

We can't drill on Titan! It might have life forms that we might disrupt! Or beautiful methane seas that some movie star might want to build a mansion next to...or...

[doc30]

And how do methyl hydrates, which just sit on the bottom of the ocean, fit into this picture?

[F.J. Mitchell]

Calling it fossil fuel always has sounded like a fairy tale fabricated by idiots.

[ClearCase_guy]

If oil is geological in nature rather than biological in nature, then perhaps oil can be found almost anywhere, providing a deep enough well is used.

I believe some fields that seemed to be "tapped out" have later been found to have "re-filled". Whether that means oil is a renewable resource may be debatable. But it seems to me that the supply of oil available to us on earth may be several orders of magnitude greater than we think.

[razorback-bert]

Well it isn't Gold's theory.

[cpdiii]

There are indeed non biological sources of hydrocarbons. However, all the hydrocarbon traps in the earth are associated with sedimentary deposition. The oil we produce is from biological sources. When they start pumping oil from one of the Pacific volcanic islands call me, and bring a dead crow for me to eat.

[mmercier]

Oil on earth may have fallen from space. I tend to believe this theory as it explains vast areas of tar sands all over the planet.

I have read a more interesting theory on the possibility that oil is produced in the outer earth core and forced upward over time. If this is the case then once depleted subterranean oil oceans may be refilling on their own.

In any case if we could mine Titan for high grade unleaded that would be a good start.

[sully777]

I'll be the first

I know they found gas in\on Saturn but have they found gas in\on Uranus yet? We have a right to know!

[Holdek]

Wow I had no idea Jerome Corsi was a petroleum engineer! I also didn't know that the oil fields were refilling! But, since he knows what he's talking about, I guess I should

All those oil pumps that have gone dry are probably overflowing by now. Let's all go look!

[DustyMoment]

The government of New Zealand is deeply disappointed - they can't tax farmers for their cows farting anymore.

[sit-rep]

BTTT...

[blam]

What do you think of this?

[Hank Rearden]

So the cow-fart theory goes right out the window too?