[marc costanzo]

This theory is not new - it goes back many years- a Austrian Jewish scientist named Goldstone- I think,
came up with this hypothesis that Petroleum is not the result of decaying marine plants at all, but coincident to the creation of the earth itself .

A vast ocean of hydrocarbons deep inside the porous rock of the earth itself, deep in the mantle .

Even the great Russian scientist Mendeleev described Petrol as a a material in which organic remains were added - as it percolated up to the Earth's surface .
Microbes feed on this geo-hydrocarbon, in turn they die and their remains are added to the petroleum .

[cynwoody]

This theory is not new - it goes back many years- a Austrian Jewish scientist named Goldstone

Thomas Gold. The article mentions him.