[2012 FLASHBACK] What If Oil and Natural Gas Are Renewable Resources?

American Thinker ^ | March 18, 2012 | Greg Lewis

[2ndDivisionVet]

President Barack Obama and his green energy confederates are determined to scare the public about a declining supply of "fossil fuels." If we accept the idea that oil is produced by the conversion of organic matter -- from plants to dinosaurs -- under extreme pressure, we must also accept the idea that there is a limited supply of oil and that we've got to do everything we can to find a replacement for fossil fuels before we run out.

The evidence is mounting that not only do we have more than a century's worth of recoverable oil in the United States alone (even if there is a limit to the earth's oil supply), but that we also actually have a limitless supply of Texas tea because oil is in fact a renewable resource that is being constantly created deep under the earth's surface and which rises upward, where microscopic organisms that thrive in the intense pressure and heat miles below us interact with and alter it.

In other words, we have an unending supply of oil, some of which is constantly migrating upward from the depths at which it is created to refill existing oil deposits, and much more of which remains far below the surface. This oil can be recovered using existing technology.

Scientist Thomas Gold presents the decades-old theory of "abiotic" oil-creation, which supports these facts, in his book, The Deep Hot Biosphere....

[HiTech RedNeck]

What kind of well is that? It would be flowing white hot liquid diamond. If any pipe we know could withstand it.

[iontheball]

What kind of well is that? It would be flowing white hot liquid diamond. If any pipe we know could withstand it.
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40,000 feet is only about 7.5 miles. I have read reports we have drilled to around 45000 feet. The earth’s molten core is estimated to be 1800 miles down so 7.5 miles barely scratches the outer mantel, yet it is well below any resting place for fossil matter, which would form the base for crude.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well OK. The Moho project. It found fossils of single celled organisms and a temperature like that of kitchen ovens.

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/deepest-hole-world/

So what would this mean. Not quite a proof of a 7.5 mile deep fount of petroleum, though petroleum might yet be possible from biotic sources. It might look something more like coal than oil under such conditions.

[HiTech RedNeck]

But if we are going to be talking coal and such solid things... why not some more ambitious vegetation harvesting project? Surely, America’s lawn clippings alone ought to be worth something in the energy picture, and would probably be more welcome lighting our lights than rotting slowly to methane in landfills.

[IncPen]

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