[Right_Wing_Madman]

For decades, it was assumed that crude oil was a finite resource in the ground and it would take millions of years for nature to replace it. Recent evidence is showing the earth produces oil at a greater rate than humans can consume it. So much for peak oil.

[Honest Nigerian]

Another argument for a young earth. At least it does not favor or prove the “millions/billions of years” foolishness.

[waterhill]

Correct. Oil is abiotic. No such thing as fossil fuels.

[alloysteel]

We can make oil. It is being done all the time in laboratories dedicated to this research, and has even be used in limited degree on an industrial basis.

In a process called Thermal Depolymerization, the great and unending flow of organic waste is converted into kerogen, the form of crude oil that is sent to our refineries, and made into fuel, industrial chemicals and plastic materials.

https://www.aboutmechanics.com/what-is-thermal-depolymerization.htm

The process requires heat and pressure. Heat is easy, it is a byproduct of the operation of a nuclear reactor, in great excess of the needs to produce electrical power generation.

Pressure is a result of heating the water used in the process to the point of superheated steam, and the whole reaction takes place in a closed retort, in the absence of oxygen. And it takes place in a matter of hours for each batch, at which point the newly formed hydrocarbon product is drawn off and the retorts refilled and sealed again.

Another source is the Fischer–Tropsch (FT) reaction.

https://www.mdpi.com/2624-781X/2/3/15

This chemistry is constantly forming new hydrocarbon compounds in the depths of the earth. The Mohorovicic Discontinuity, or “Moho,” is the boundary between the crust and the mantle, at depths up to thirty-five miles below the surface. The hellish conditions there provide all the heat and pressure need to force the continuous generation of hydrocarbon compounds from the huge quantities of carbon dioxide and water molecules which have been heated to the point of dissociation into free hydrogen and which react with the carbon monoxide that is continuously forming from the carbon dioxide, which acts as a solvent for all the other processes. These hydrocarbon compounds formed are forced into the rocky crust above the Moho layer, and are trapped in pockets at various depths below the surface, forming our oil fields.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Recent evidence is showing the earth produces oil at a greater rate than humans can consume it. So much for peak oil.

Once oil is proven to be abiotic many lucrative scams will blow up spectacularly - including the petrodollar.