Posted on 02/19/2017 1:38:04 PM PST by rktman
It’s not dinosaurs.
For the people who didn’t read the article, the author is pretty clear on where oil comes from: algae and plankton die, sink to the bottom of ocean, and are buried in sediment. Eventually the sediment-algae mixture is covered in miles of sedument so that it turns into rock with embedded organic material. Thermo-chemical processes turn the algae into oil and gas.
All oil is biogenic. Some methane may be abiogenic.
Heh! Yeah, like steaks and veggies come from Safeway and Kroger. LOL!
But oil floats on water. It will cover the oceans and block the sun and poison the fish. It is imperative that we quick use all the oil to save Gaia.
Oil companies saved the whales.
first the earth cooled, then came the dinosaurs but they were killed off by the white man for their oil
Sounds like something they’d claim, just prior to finding “man made global warming” holy grail.
I loved Paul Harvey! Especially “The Rest of the Story.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddai8rkXWRs&list=PL3KJXZx8frXbF5-llPhqPS1dDa_k6xKG3
I grew up with “OMG! The ice age is coming!!!! WE ARE DOOMED!”
What was really happening was the progressives were coming.
“...God gave it to us to fuel our Hemis. Yes, god is a Chrysler man....”
Love it! I remember a few years back, I had just gotten one of my 440 blocks back from the machine shop and was fitting in the crank, rods and pistons. My dad stopped by the shop to see what I was up to. He looked at the cylinders in that block and wanted to know why I was working on such a big diesel engine?...LOL.
I told him it was a Chrysler 440 bored .030” over and it was gas engine going into a ‘72 Dart Swinger. He was amazed. He said; “Son, it’s gonna cost you over $5 in gas just to crank that thing up.....no wonder we’re running out of oil.” And he walked back out. For awhile there, he was pretty much correct in half of his prediction: it’s one expensive puppy to run even to this day.
MOPAR rules.
LOL! His management or ours?
We have planets and moons in our solar system with more hydrocarbons than we can imagine. How many dinosaurs lived on Titan?
>>I get my oil from Jiffy Lube.
Wal-Mart
I wouldn’t trust the average Jiffy Lube guy to put air in my tires, let alone change my oil!
The good synthetic stuff, about $25/gallon in the blue jug at Wal-Mart IIRC. And see my previous.
And the gas is probably only half of it, the other being back tires . . .
Consider that the earth is basically a planet-sized, gravity-powered crock pot and that everything on this planet is eventually pulled down inside and slow cooked.
And, just like with a crock pot, the oils released during cooking slowly rise and accumulate over time.
That's what we are tapping into when we drill, and is what bubbles up into tar pits, as well as from the cracks in the ocean floor to be washed ashore on beaches around the world: the all-natural oils released during cooking.
Run out of oil? Not going to happen unless you empty the crock pot or you turn off gravity.
Uranus has er... ah... lots of methane as it is a interstellar bathroom for passing starships. They drop off their waste there.
#14 Oil and Vinegar?
I’ve nothing against
mopar as I’m now
building a tubed frame
1940 Plymouth pickup.
Shoehorned under the
folding hood is a 440
magnum.
But statistics point to the
Boss 429 (1969-1970) as the
“king of the road”. To bad
the Boss never got it’s
chance to run (in a Mustang)
against the 426 on a NASCAR
track.
All major brand “American”
car manufacturers in the
muscle car era built cars
I would love to own.
I’ve watched “Bullet” and
“Vanishing Point” more times
than I can probably count.
And, back then, they ran
one gas that was around
.50 a gallon....
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