At least I didn’t write an entire book without the vaguest understanding of the theory I was attacking, as Corsi did.
He apparently actually believes that biotic oil means people believing oil comes from “dinosaurs” rather than marine and lacustrine plankton and diatoms. I have a suspicion he doesn’t know what a diatom is.
I’m awaiting his book about abiotic coal.
All modern western abiotic oil theories have their genesis in the Soviet Union.
http://www.questionsquestions.net/docs04/peakoil1.html
The fact is that the chemistry is well describable. Another fact is that no matter how much carbon and hydrogen and oxygen we see on the surface of the Earth, it is miserably less than that in the interior, probably billionths.
My personal opinion is that we will in time find out both sides are correct. After all, it is not unusual at all to see complex hydrocarbons in the atmospheres of our outer planets, and last time I checked, nobody is claiming there are any dinosaurs there.