[jpl]

I can't help but wonder why it is that the petroleum industry continues to push all the old theories about "fossil fuels" and such, when it becomes more obvious with each passing year that Thomas Gold was right: these fuels are made naturally deep under the surface, and the earth will never completely run out of oil.

Then I look at the incredible amounts of money being made by Dubai and companies like Exxon-Mobil by ripping us off, and it suddenly makes sense.

[thackney]

I can't help but wonder why it is that the petroleum industry continues to push all the old theories about "fossil fuels"

Perhaps because the only commercially producing petroleum ever discovered and is flowing today is all sourced from sedimentary rock and contains biomarkers.

There have a few attempts to drill and locate abiotic oil. Those wells have only been successful in producing cash from gullible investors and a couple times gullible governments. None have resulted in oil production.