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).
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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.
That will be one long pipeline.
Well not quite what I thought I read, so my comment is wrong overall, but there are occurrences where dry oil wells do replenish.
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I have never watched it. I only spent one summer in Midland. I worked for Sun out at Claydesta. My new wife and I lived in an apartment at the corner of Midland Drive and the Wadley River. I went to summer mummers. I golfed at Hogan Park and saw rattlesnakes, prairie dogs, and burrowing owls sharing the same hole. I spent a little time over at Hobbs for Welex but sadly I have spent the rest of my oil field days in the land of the pine tree. My brother was stationed at Goodfellow for a few years.
I always thought Oil was a byproduct from the earth’s core ,LOL
IMO the “fossilized algae” explanation is a ruse that was used to try to convince people that it would soon run out.
I think you’ve bit at their cheese.
I office in Clay Desta! Still beautiful.
Walked by an office today on another floor. Full of Picasso and other obvious high dollar art. Only in Midland.
Wadley is now an east-west road in the middle of town. The town goes north now for some ways.
Hobbs remains rough and is a good place to get murdered.
Really? Why do they call it fossil fuel? Don’t all Hydro-Carbons come from dead dinosaurs?
I proposed to my wife there. Fortunately, I went back to graduate school at TTU while she taught.
I proposed to my wife there. Fortunately, I went back to graduate school at TTU while she taught.
Whatever you say, Bill Nye. But given the time and desire, I could show you the facts. We could start with the formation of coal.
I get it, you bought into that story a long time ago.
But sorry, it was bogus.
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Come over from the Dark Side. There is still time to put the anti-science Koolaid down. Not all science is bogus, man.
Exactly. Wake up.
Do you believe everything that the quacks tell you about your health? Take this pill, have this surgery. Why? Cuz of science.
"Saturn'ssmoggy moon Titan has hundreds of times more natural gas and other liquidhydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth,scientists said today"
I know, it is hard for a crusty old prospector to unlearn old psyop tricks.
You’re forgiven.
I know, it is hard for a crusty old prospector to unlearn old psyop tricks.
You’re forgiven.
I know, it is hard for a crusty old prospector to unlearn old psyop tricks.
You’re forgiven.
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