[thackney]

But we are using it much faster than it is being formed. We are? Sez who?

Me for one. I've done the math.

If the earth produced oil at the current rate of oil consumption for 400 million years, the volume of oil would cover the earth 6 miles deep.

[cuban leaf]

How about 6,000 years? ;-)

[Atomic Vomit]

"If the earth produced oil at the current rate of oil consumption for 400 million years, the volume of oil would cover the earth 6 miles deep."

Re-read what you just said....

Rather than a refutation of abiotic oil, your claim of a layer of oil 6 miles deep is so. It's just 6 miles (and much more...) UNDER ground, not above ground as your example assumes.

AV- Seimographic exploration ship capt. Alaska, S. America E & W coasts, US West coast, Gulf of Mexico, Bahamas & Caribbean. Oil structures were everywhere we looked.

The Earth indeed does not have a layer of oil 6 miles thick- it's thicker!