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To: Lurker
As far as "peak Oil", phooey. I am sitting on a wellsite tapping a reservoir estimated to contain between 100 and 500 Billion bbl of oil as I type this, and we are using technology which was unavailable when I started in the oil industry in '79.

The USGS will not conduct their formal estimate until 2007-8, and we have been drilling wells in this for the past 6 years. Maybe someday we will 'run out', but we are not there yet.

As for Titan, methane origin is somewhat explained here. No critters are believed to be involved, but then, there are no producing oil wells on Titan, either. (Longer chain hydrocarbons are believed to not be present.)

14 posted on 12/05/2006 2:13:45 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
I am sitting on a wellsite tapping a reservoir estimated to contain between 100 and 500 Billion bbl of oil as I type this,

Holy cow. That's a lot of gasoline.

Maybe I should buy a Hummer while everyone else is selling them...

L

16 posted on 12/05/2006 2:21:50 AM PST by Lurker (Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
I am sitting on a wellsite tapping a reservoir estimated to contain between 100 and 500 Billion bbl of oil as I type this

That's awfully big. Are you sure those numbers are correct, because that's bigger than the largest oil field in the world, which is in Saudi?

93 posted on 12/05/2006 7:21:35 AM PST by Titanites
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