[beyond the sea]

Is "Peak Oil" a fraud?

It seems like it’s all been a big charade.

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“In his book, The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels, he explains that dinosaurs and plants and the fossils from those living beings are not the origin of oil and natural gas, but rather generated from a chemical substance in the crust of the Earth. “

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It’s strange that any of us ever believed that (dinosaur/oil) fantasy in the first place. I guess they fed it to us early enough in school when most of us never asked too many questions. How would have the “remains” of those dinosaurs gotten so deeply into the earth where the oil is now?

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[justa-hairyape]

Considering that we are consuming millions of barrels of oil per day and have been for decades, there must have been a heck of a lot of Dinosaurs and plants that were smashed deep in the earths crust. Additionally, modern plate tectonics states that crustal mass is actually being recycled over millions of years.

[aruanan]

It’s strange that any of us ever believed that (dinosaur/oil) fantasy in the first place. I guess they fed it to us early enough in school when most of us never asked too many questions. How would have the “remains” of those dinosaurs gotten so deeply into the earth where the oil is now?

Oil is believed to be "organic" because it rotates light slightly to the left and because it contains molecules that are believed to be biogenic. Gold maintained that the levorotatory nature of petroleum is due to contamination of these molecules that do, indeed, come from a biological origin, from microbes that live on the petroleum and/or methane at depth underground. He showed this through the drilling in Sweden in the meteorite crater that yielded petroleum that was laden with magnetite crystals of a probable biological origin.

[Strategerist]

“In his book, The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels, he explains that dinosaurs and plants and the fossils from those living beings are not the origin of oil and natural gas, but rather generated from a chemical substance in the crust of the Earth.

It’s strange that any of us ever believed that (dinosaur/oil) fantasy in the first place. I guess they fed it to us early enough in school when most of us never asked too many questions. How would have the “remains” of those dinosaurs gotten so deeply into the earth where the oil is now?

I have to point for about the 50th time that Jerome Corsi, author of above book, is either a deliberate liar or an abject moron.

There has never, ever, EVER been a scientific theory that oil comes from dead dinosaurs.

And no, you didn't learn that oil comes from dead dinosaurs in school; you learned that from some humorous and cute oil company commercials, in combination with the average largely uneducated member of the public thinking the ONLY fossils are "dinosaurs" because of the overwhelming focus on and interest in dinosaurs.

So Corsi wrote an entire book attacking a theory that doesn't exist.

Oil, of course, comes from dead marine and lacustrine plankton - largely algae and diatoms. The composition of petroleum deposits exactly matches that of this dead plankton. There are no "dinosaurs" in oil at all, and no land plants - those form coal, obviously.

And basically you need to take Geology 101 from somewhere if you can't figure out how ocean or lake bottom sediments can get deeply buried over time.

[Lee'sGhost]

"It’s strange that any of us ever believed that (dinosaur/oil) fantasy in the first place. "

Not just saying this, but it never made sense to me. Your "deep" question is a good example. Another would be, why/how did the dinos keep coming to the same places to die so that oil pooled? Wouldn't they all just die and decay the same way animals today do?

[scannell]

Is "Peak Oil" a fraud?

Peak Oil is definitly a canard and fraud.