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To: beyond the sea

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.


6 posted on 12/05/2006 1:30:45 AM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: justa-hairyape
Yes indeed.

A little more:

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http://www.the7thfire.com/Politics%20and%20History/peak_oil/is_peak_oil_a_myth.htm

There have been numerous reports in recent times, of oil and gas fields not running out at the expected time, but instead showing a higher content of hydrocarbons after they had already produced more than the initially estimated amount. This has been seen in the Middle East, in the deep gas wells of Oklahoma, on the Gulf of Mexico coast, and in other places. It is this apparent refilling during production that has been responsible for the series of gross underestimate of reserves that have been published time and again, the most memorable being the one in the early seventies that firmly predicted the end of oil and gas globally by 1987, a prediction which produced an energy crisis and with that a huge shift in the wealth of nations. Refilling is an item of the greatest economic significance, and also a key to understanding what the sources of all this petroleum had been. It is also of practical engineering importance, since we may be able to exercise some control over the refilling process.

The debate about the origin of all the petroleum on Earth lies in the center of the subject. If we really knew that it is only biological materials, which, in their decay, could produce hydrocarbons, then the quantities that could ever be produced would be limited by the biological content of the sediments. But then the clear and strong association of petroleum with the inert gas helium would have no explanation; the finding of hydrocarbon gases, liquids and solids on most other planetary bodies in our solar system which have surface conditions quite unsuitable for surface life, could not be understood; the presence of hydrocarbons which we now find in abundance in basement rocks would also remained unexplained.

8 posted on 12/05/2006 1:46:32 AM PST by beyond the sea ( All lies and jest, still the man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.)
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To: justa-hairyape

Yes, and for some reason they all lived in the desert in the middle east.....


80 posted on 12/05/2006 5:57:33 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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