Posted on 06/19/2022 4:24:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber
That image is right after the prices doubled from $0.25 with the introduction of mandated unleaded gas and when self service was replacing full service.
The move to end cheap gas was capped with the mandated expensive seasonal blends.
You are making me homesick for the past. Moreso due to the wholesome looking, un-woke young lady than due to the low gas prices.
I could live with $10/gallon gas if everyone in the USA was conservative.
That photo looks like late 1973 when the Arab Oil Embargo hit. Prices doubled and people were screaming.
Just three years before that (1970) you could buy a six pack of beer for $1. You could also get 5 gallons of gas for $1.
Today the beer is $10 a six pack, and you can only get 2 gallons of gas for $10.
I’ve always wondered how the dinosaurs got like 200 feet below the surface of the earth and how many billions there had to be to produce so much oil./s I am no geologist but there have always been questions in my mind of how this all works.
Here is the basis for my mathematical calculations....
The largest mammal today is the blue whale at 30 tons..
a blue whale produced 30 to 40 barrels of oil...
I them calculated entire earth land mass..
I then calculated a range for a 30 ton dinosaur to roam...
I live on 1 acre. a 30 ton dinosaur could easily pick all vegetation clean from 1 acre per day. assuming that the foliage would replentish itself every 30 days, a 30 ton dinosaur needs a range of 30 acres to survive.
using this information, and assuming that all land mass on the earth at that time was lush tropical foliage, it was a simple math problem to calculate the number of dinosaurs the earth could sustain.
you then take that number, multiply it by 40 barrels per animal, then multiply that number time a couple of hundred million years, and you get the maximum number of barrels the dinosaurs could produce.
that number does not even come close to the known oil reserves of today.
Wow that’s a great analysis. I agree with that so not all oil comes from the dinosaur. Mmmmm.
This song says it all.
Some coal might be from organic sources. Peat is clearly decayed plant matter and Lignite seems to be compressed Peat.
Regarding Natural Gas and Crude Oil, I 100% agree the stuff comes from some geological process, not dead T Rex and friends.
I disagree with you on coal...
Peat and such is nothing but compost
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