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To: Red Badger

Peak oil - always a myth, blown up over and over. Abiotic oil is being formed all the time, in the mysterious Mohorovicic Discontinuity, or “Moho,” which is the boundary between the crust and the mantle. In this hellish boundary layer, millions of side reactions are occurring all the time, where carbon dioxide is a superfluid liquid that is also a reagent in the constantly reversing reactions taking place.

And you thought petroleum was some kind of dinosaur soup.


13 posted on 05/31/2026 7:52:05 PM PDT by alloysteel (The body may betray or fail. The spirit shall endure and prevail. Courage, courage.)
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To: alloysteel

I never thought that was the case.

There never could have been enough plant and animal mass in existence to account for all the petroleum.

I figured that way deep down in the earth, methane gas from the beginning of the solar system, was being compressed and heated to enormous temps and pressures and being liquified into petroleum.

After all, the gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus and their moons are all full of methane and ammonia.....................


15 posted on 05/31/2026 7:57:17 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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