Posted on 07/30/2025 11:12:34 AM PDT by Red Badger
No, your car isn’t running on liquefied dinosaurs.
The good stuff, unless you want a stable environment, of course.
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At some point, you have probably heard somewhere that oil comes from dinosaurs, as if every time you fill up at the gas station, you are pumping refined velociraptor into your Volvo. It’s a vivid image, but it’s not true. Despite how widespread the belief is, oil isn’t made from decomposed dinosaurs.
“For some strange reason, the idea that oil comes from dinosaurs has stuck with many people," geologist Reidar Müller from the University of Oslo explained to Science Norway. "But oil comes from trillions of tiny algae and plankton."
As algae and plankton died tens to hundreds of millions of years ago, they sank to the bottom of the sea, where they accumulated and were buried by layers and layers of sediment. Eventually, after millions of years in a high-pressure and low-oxygen environment, the algae and plankton got "cooked" and turned into that sticky black oil we humans apparently can't get enough of, despite the threat of a climate emergency. From here, it seeps upwards until it hits rock it can't make it through, requiring humans to drill it out (or some other natural disaster to set it free again).
VIDEO AT LINK................
While marine dinosaurs – or a T. Rex that discovered its arms weren't particularly well-adapted to swimming – may find themselves on the bottom of the ocean after death, it's unlikely they would get converted into oil themselves.
This is partly because an oxygen-deprived environment is needed to convert organic matter into oil. Once dead, they would have become a meal for smaller aquatic creatures, picking them apart until they got down to the bones, long before they could be buried.
Now to explain why, "if dinosaurs actually existed", their bones aren't everywhere.
An earlier version of this story was published in 2023.
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But Sinclair oil people said so and they had a dinosaur on their gas station logo. (/sarc)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin
The scientists don’t like to talk about other scientific theories. It’s got to be algae and ferns. It’s got to be plant decompositon. Couldn’t be anything else. Don’t question the science.
Big believer of abiotic oil. The term fossil fuel was to give us the impression of scarcity.
Plankton BINGO
Plan B place sea water in old oil wells and?.
Id hate to think where Baby Oil comes from
You have FRACKING!.......................
I dunno but I have as much trouble believing oil comes from plankton & algae as dinosaurs...
The science is settled.
We have consensus.
Now be a good slave and go buy an EV.....................
Natures biofuel. Greenish-black gold.
I remember that!...................
Oil finds are not always at the bottom of the sea. Perhaps they once were as continents shifted, but the interior oven below seems the mostly likely creator.
That oven keeps churning and could be another million years before it’s all gone. We see lava spill out occasionally.
Energy sources are coming soon which will require much less dependance on oil.
Who knows but the ultimate source is God. God also provides other forms of energy like the sun, wind, water and nuclear.
Hydrocarbons are part of the universe. There is a moon of Saturn called Titan. It has oceans of hydrocarbons. It rains hydrocarbons. In some ways it is a celestial gas station for some future descendants of Elon Musk to fill up and travel further.
I doubt the Titan hydrocarbons come from dinosaurs, ancient savannas, algae or plankton.
Also, Musk chose methane as one of the fuels because there is a lot of methane on Mars. One of the current, large rovers on Mars has a proof-of-concept experiment called MOXIE. MOXIE proved we can make oxygen out of the Martian atmosphere.
Chickens come from the store. What’s there to know?
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