“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
Abiotic oil has been argued about for 50-60 years.
A astrophysicist the late Thomas Gold makes a case for it in his book “The Deep Hot Biosphere”. The term abiotic is somewhat misleading because even in this oil creation hypothesis oil still has a biological origin with appropriate geologic conditions. Gold postulates in his book that oil\petroleum even anthracite coal (This as anthracite coal origin I have a problem with!) comes from thermophile bacteria colonies that live interstitially in the pores of rocks. They consume minerals each other and reproduce & die. Over time coupled with geologic and geochemical processes produce petroleum. It’s done continuously but slowly. We know these thermophile bacteria and some higher order life exist because we see them clustered around volcanic vents in the deep ocean. Also, these bacterial “colonies” show up in drilling. Usually, they are attributed to contamination from the surface. Maybe, maybe not.
It’s been a very long time since I followed this closely. The Russians used to big on this as an explanation for oil’s origin. I don’t know if they still are. Also, Gold’s book talks about a drilling project in Sweden that was supposed to shed more light on this. I don’t know how it turned out. US oil companies pooh pooh it. Gold’s book
Nope. Tell that to the folks in Kilgore.