I tell people about the “fossil fuel” lie. Most people have no interest in changing their false reality. They have no curiosity. They have been successfully gaslit and the cognitive dissonance is too much for them, so they resist changing their minds. They cannot admit they believe lies. Try telling them that the flouride in their toothpaste (or possibly in their city water) is toxic. They don’t believe it no matter how many facts you give them. š
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I’ve been in O&G since 1981.
In the late 1970s Total Oil (now Total Energies) commissioned a mass balance study
It consisted of the amount of oil and gas already used (circa 1978) balanced with the assumed amount (mass) of carboniferous life in all years since the fossil ages.
Taken into account is the “decay” factor of (a very conservative 2%) carbon-based material left to form oil and gas.
For perspective, most life forms are made up of 98% water and (for humans) almost 1% calcium.
When a person dies, the body desiccates, leaving (conservatively) 2% (w/w) of its mass to be made into Oil and Gas.
A single Brontosaurus would be responsible for less than a gallon of oil and less than 1000cuft of natural gas.
Plants, even less, even though they are more prevalent, their relative mass is much less, on the whole.
They did not include fossilization where the carbohydrate “walls” of cells are calcified, their carbon content is used to form CaCO3.
The study concluded that the mass of all previous lifeforms, up to 1975 (or thereabouts) would have accounted for very little oil and gas (actually, coming very close to that 2% number, which is mathematically obvious).
Subsurface oil and gas MUST come from processes unrevealed to us.
Abiotic oil.
Sadly there are CPA and MBA in charge of our oil companies that thnk we are on the \back\ side of peak oil.
Because some communist passed a few regulations.
I’ve told a few people about the āfossil fuelā lie, and they’ve looked at me like I’d sprouted a second head. As far as fluoride, it makes me sad that all my loved ones use regular toothpaste because “the dentist said so”. I’ve made my own for over 25 years and told them why, but I’m the weirdo.
IKR! Its easier for people to continue to believe the narrative that they have always heard. Thinking about something in a different way is hard. They don’t want to do the work. Until it smacks them upside the head. Sometimes not even then.
Normalcy bias is a hard thing to break in most people.
