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L. Fletcher Prouty: Oil is not a fossil fuel; it is the second most prevalent liquid on Earth
The Expose' ^ | SEPTEMBER 29, 2023 | RHODA WILSON

Posted on 09/29/2023 11:47:21 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

There are massive lakes of methane on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.

Were there many dead dinosaurs there?


21 posted on 09/29/2023 12:02:31 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

If there were, they all froze to death................


22 posted on 09/29/2023 12:04:49 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

There are oceans of hydrocarbons on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. I doubt that ancient dinosaurs and savannas created these hydrocarbons.

We have only drilled a few miles into the Earth. We have thousands of years of hydrocarbons under our feet. C02 is PLANT FOOD. The real ‘greening of the Earth’ is with MORE C02.


23 posted on 09/29/2023 12:05:36 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Phoenix8

Until they find significant amounts of hydrocarbons in igneous or metamorphic rock formations, that is what we have to go with.


24 posted on 09/29/2023 12:06:37 PM PDT by Round Earther
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To: Red Badger

I’ve known this for decades.


25 posted on 09/29/2023 12:07:25 PM PDT by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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To: Phoenix8

Oh come on. We’ve been “running” out for decades.

Reminds me of Hyman Roth, he’s been dying from the same heart attack for twenty years.


26 posted on 09/29/2023 12:11:35 PM PDT by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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To: Red Badger
Anyone who could think beyond his nose can understand that since oil is being drawn up from thousands of feet underground can understand that in no EFFn way could the dinosaurs be buried that deep in geological history.
27 posted on 09/29/2023 12:15:17 PM PDT by crz
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To: Red Badger

I remember him on some early talk shows in the 90s.

The reason China is building miltary bases in the South China Sea is because there are enormous oil reserves there.

Think about it - there’s been billions of shit-tonnes of biomass created by all the life on earth and it had to go somewhere. It’s all right here.


28 posted on 09/29/2023 12:17:12 PM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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To: Red Badger

The topic of abiotic oil was addressed at length in Thomas Gold’s “The Deep Hot Biosphere”. The fossil fuel theory dates from 1759 and we don’t subscribe to many other theories dating from 1759.

Gold posed the question of what did the first life forms use as a food and energy source since photosynthesis had not yet appeared? Naturally occurring hydrocarbons.

Apparently the carbon in the form of carbonates gets regenerated in the Earth’s mantle when it’s sucked in at subduction zones. Otherwise there would be no carbon in the biosphere since it would all be in the form of carbonate rocks.


29 posted on 09/29/2023 12:17:28 PM PDT by KamperKen (u)
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To: Red Badger

Probably a byproduct from the Earth’s Core


30 posted on 09/29/2023 12:18:14 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Phoenix8

Every word you just wrote is pure brainwashed crap.


31 posted on 09/29/2023 12:18:25 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Red Badger

Yes, I knew that; 11 years ago I was on a date and said that oil was not a fossil fuel. My shocked date said, “if it’s not from dinosaurs what is it?”

“It’s abiotic,” I replied. Just then the waiter brought our food, I had noticed he heard all that. Once you read that and just think about oil for a few minutes it’s easy to figure out it’s not fossil fuel.


32 posted on 09/29/2023 12:19:58 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: llevrok

“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.


33 posted on 09/29/2023 12:20:12 PM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: EastTexasTraveler

but the Climate Cult says renewable resources are Bad ,LOL


34 posted on 09/29/2023 12:21:57 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Round Earther

Makes me want to tell you a true story.

I wrote this somewhere else so I’ll copy and paste it. Ok can’t find it, here is the shortened version. I will voice type so forgive me of errors:

My father used to do some wildcat drilling after he retired from education and I was probably in my 20s this is been no more like 30 is this is probably been 30 years ago or so 25 years ago and we were drilling one well and needed a part and we heard about a big drill site that was in Kentucky, Central Kentucky that had the part that we could either buy or borrow up I can’t remember so we drove over to it and it was a major oil companies such as a shell or a marathon etc. and I’ve got to see the rig and I start walking around I was marveling at how incredibly huge the rig was and nice. start talking to the men who work there and they said it was a special test well and they had spent thousands upon hundreds of thousands of dollars and what they were doing……

Seems they were actually performing a special test well they were going to try to drill down to the basement , the bottom of the basement and look for the presents hydrocarbons . the test failed because they drilled so deep. The temperatures increase so incredibly high but there steel bits were starting to get soft and melt all the results of this test was the deeper they got the fewer hydrocarbons that they found so actually disproved the hypothesis that oil is produced deep deeply inside of the Earth from mineral chemical changes it did in fact, support the theory of oil and natural gas, and so forth are, in fact, fossil fuels from fossils of living life forms.

This is what I saw, heard, felt…I was there.


35 posted on 09/29/2023 12:25:05 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: Red Badger

40 years ago, I did my science fair project on “what will be the energy of the future.” All the resources said to expect oil to be gone in 20 to 30 years.

Well, here we are, pumping more than ever. I’ve grown to leaning to believe that it is possibly an endless supply of some kind. Seems many people in the oil industry say the same.


36 posted on 09/29/2023 12:36:01 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: VastRWCon; Red Badger
I never believed in the Dinosaur “fossil fuel” myth.

The term "fossil fuels" was conjured up to make it seem like there was a limited amount. Therefore making it valuable.

Kinda like diamonds being horded by the largest gem dealers to make them more expensive. There are literally millions of diamonds stored in vaults to keep the market from being saturated.

37 posted on 09/29/2023 12:37:07 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: crz

There were giant dinosaur gophers.

They could really dig deep.

We haven’t found their fossil because they are now oil.


38 posted on 09/29/2023 12:37:32 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob
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To: Red Badger
The Kennedy guy? Donald Sutherland played a fictionalized version of Prouty in JFK, feeding conspiracy theories to Jim Garrison, as played by Kevin Costner.

The Soviets also had a theory that oil wasn't a fossil fuel. So far, it hasn't worked out well for their theory.

39 posted on 09/29/2023 12:40:34 PM PDT by x
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To: llevrok

Old, abandoned oil wells (properly capped off) have been found to be refilling over the decades. So yes the earth creates more oil.


40 posted on 09/29/2023 12:41:18 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting….)
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