Posted on 09/29/2023 11:47:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
During an interview in 1994, L. Fletcher Prouty spoke about what petroleum is. It isn’t what we think it is. It isn’t a fossil fuel. And it is the second most prevalent liquid on Earth, he said.
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L. Fletcher Prouty was Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff under US President John F. Kennedy. A former colonel in the United States Air Force, he retired from military service to become a bank executive and subsequently became a critic of US foreign policy, particularly the covert activities of the CIA about which he had considerable inside knowledge. He died in 2001 aged 84.
During the Second World War, Colonel Pouty served as an army tank commander. He later joined the United States Air Force (“USAAF”) and in 1943 became the personal pilot of General Omar Bradley. Later that year he flew Chiang Kai-shek to the Tehran Conference.
Prouty also became involved in work for the Office of Strategic Services (“OSS”). In 1945 he served on Okinawa and was involved in transporting the bodyguard of General Douglas MacArthur to Tokyo. In 1946 Prouty was assigned by the US Army to Yale University. In 1950 he established Air Defence Command and during the Korean War was based in Japan where he was Military Manager for Tokyo International Airport.
In 1955 Prouty was assigned to coordinate operations between the USAAF and the Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”). For the next nine years, he worked for the Pentagon. He was Briefing Officer for the Secretary of Defence (1960-61), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Chief of Special Operations (1962-63).
Colonel Prouty retired from the USAAF in 1964 and was awarded the Joint Chiefs of Staff Commendation Medal. He later worked for the General Aircraft Corporation (1964-65) and First National Bank (1965-68). He was also a senior director of a government and military marketing organisation.
Find out more about Colonel Prouty at L. Fletcher Prouty (Spartacus Educational) and L. Fletcher Prouty (Wikipedia).
During an interview in 1994, Bruce Kanier asked Colonel Prouty what he meant when in a talk he said that petroleum wasn’t a fossil fuel and that it was a mineral. Colonel Prouty responded:
“[When] oil went from a lubricant to a fuel [ ] it made it valuable. Rockefeller happened to be the smartest man in the business at the time but he made most of his money, or much of it, off the transport of the petroleum as well as selling it.
“Putting a price on oil is like putting a price on a pail of water, no initial cost, that’s in the ground. And in those days, they were, some of it, almost what you’d call surface mining the oil, they didn’t go down deep. So, in order to get the price up, they hit on the idea that they would have to make it appear to be scarce.
“[Fortuitously] in 1892 there was a convention in Geneva of scientists to determine what organic substances are. Well, the definition of organic is a substance with hydrogen, oxygen and carbon. It’s usually a living substance … At this Geneva convention, Rockefeller took advantage of sending some scientists over who said: ‘Oil, petroleum is hydrogen, oxygen and carbon therefore it must be derived from [ ] the rotting of formerly living matter’.
“When the scientific convention was over, they defined oil as the residue from formerly living matter. Well, that makes it a ‘fossil fuel’.
“There has never been a fossil, a real fossil, found below sixteen thousand feet … We drill for oil at thirty thousand, thirty three thousand, twenty eight thousand, every day of the week. So, right there we rule it out that it isn’t fossil fuel. It’s called fossil fuel for the minds of the public to feel that it is an asset that is running out [and] being depleted.
“If you know the world’s oil supply, you know that it is not going to run out for an awfully long time. It is the second most prevalent liquid on Earth.”
For years, Colonel Prouty explained, they preached the propaganda to the highest offices in the USA that oil was a fossil fuel that would run out. “The object of it was, as Kissinger used in his own terms when it was time for him to speak, to create a world price for oil. In other words, not 30 cents a gallon here and 90 cents a gallon there, but let’s get a world price. That’s their goal. And they’re trying to do that with wheat and everything else,” he said.
We have embedded the video below to begin with the 8-minute section where Colonel Prouty talks about oil.
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For those who are interested in reading more from Colonel Prouty on this subject: According to The Col. L Fletcher Prouty Reference Site website, Colonel Prouty “answered e-mails from this site while he was alive” and those responses and commentaries are posted on the website. It includes a ‘Commentary’ labelled ‘Commentary for June – Oil’ and under the website section titled ‘Letters of the Month’ is an email exchange between various people and Colonel Prouty about the ‘Origins of Oil’.
There are massive lakes of methane on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
Were there many dead dinosaurs there?
If there were, they all froze to death................
There are oceans of hydrocarbons on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. I doubt that ancient dinosaurs and savannas created these hydrocarbons.
We have only drilled a few miles into the Earth. We have thousands of years of hydrocarbons under our feet. C02 is PLANT FOOD. The real ‘greening of the Earth’ is with MORE C02.
Until they find significant amounts of hydrocarbons in igneous or metamorphic rock formations, that is what we have to go with.
I’ve known this for decades.
Oh come on. We’ve been “running” out for decades.
Reminds me of Hyman Roth, he’s been dying from the same heart attack for twenty years.
I remember him on some early talk shows in the 90s.
The reason China is building miltary bases in the South China Sea is because there are enormous oil reserves there.
Think about it - there’s been billions of shit-tonnes of biomass created by all the life on earth and it had to go somewhere. It’s all right here.
The topic of abiotic oil was addressed at length in Thomas Gold’s “The Deep Hot Biosphere”. The fossil fuel theory dates from 1759 and we don’t subscribe to many other theories dating from 1759.
Gold posed the question of what did the first life forms use as a food and energy source since photosynthesis had not yet appeared? Naturally occurring hydrocarbons.
Apparently the carbon in the form of carbonates gets regenerated in the Earth’s mantle when it’s sucked in at subduction zones. Otherwise there would be no carbon in the biosphere since it would all be in the form of carbonate rocks.
Probably a byproduct from the Earth’s Core
Every word you just wrote is pure brainwashed crap.
Yes, I knew that; 11 years ago I was on a date and said that oil was not a fossil fuel. My shocked date said, “if it’s not from dinosaurs what is it?”
“It’s abiotic,” I replied. Just then the waiter brought our food, I had noticed he heard all that. Once you read that and just think about oil for a few minutes it’s easy to figure out it’s not fossil fuel.
“I always wonder - if oil was created once (and not from dead dinosaurs), couldn’t it still be creating itself? In short, a renewable resource?”
I know that oil fields do replenish themselves. This has been known for a long time.
but the Climate Cult says renewable resources are Bad ,LOL
Makes me want to tell you a true story.
I wrote this somewhere else so I’ll copy and paste it. Ok can’t find it, here is the shortened version. I will voice type so forgive me of errors:
My father used to do some wildcat drilling after he retired from education and I was probably in my 20s this is been no more like 30 is this is probably been 30 years ago or so 25 years ago and we were drilling one well and needed a part and we heard about a big drill site that was in Kentucky, Central Kentucky that had the part that we could either buy or borrow up I can’t remember so we drove over to it and it was a major oil companies such as a shell or a marathon etc. and I’ve got to see the rig and I start walking around I was marveling at how incredibly huge the rig was and nice. start talking to the men who work there and they said it was a special test well and they had spent thousands upon hundreds of thousands of dollars and what they were doing……
Seems they were actually performing a special test well they were going to try to drill down to the basement , the bottom of the basement and look for the presents hydrocarbons . the test failed because they drilled so deep. The temperatures increase so incredibly high but there steel bits were starting to get soft and melt all the results of this test was the deeper they got the fewer hydrocarbons that they found so actually disproved the hypothesis that oil is produced deep deeply inside of the Earth from mineral chemical changes it did in fact, support the theory of oil and natural gas, and so forth are, in fact, fossil fuels from fossils of living life forms.
This is what I saw, heard, felt…I was there.
40 years ago, I did my science fair project on “what will be the energy of the future.” All the resources said to expect oil to be gone in 20 to 30 years.
Well, here we are, pumping more than ever. I’ve grown to leaning to believe that it is possibly an endless supply of some kind. Seems many people in the oil industry say the same.
The term "fossil fuels" was conjured up to make it seem like there was a limited amount. Therefore making it valuable.
Kinda like diamonds being horded by the largest gem dealers to make them more expensive. There are literally millions of diamonds stored in vaults to keep the market from being saturated.
There were giant dinosaur gophers.
They could really dig deep.
We haven’t found their fossil because they are now oil.
The Soviets also had a theory that oil wasn't a fossil fuel. So far, it hasn't worked out well for their theory.
Old, abandoned oil wells (properly capped off) have been found to be refilling over the decades. So yes the earth creates more oil.
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