Gold. Can't remember his first name...
:^)
Thomas Gold. Google is my friend...
I heard him interviewed on the radio and was impressed. He's a serial iconoclast who over the course of a long career has come up with numerous "unorthodox" (i.e. contrary to to accepted wisdom of the PhD's in various scientific fields) theories in several different disciplines, labeled a crank by these same "experts", and then vindicated a few years later by new data. IIRC, according to him we probably have enough obtainable petroleum on the planet to last a few hundred if not a couple thousand years. This would, of course, upset one of the bigger wheels on the enviro-whackos' applecart.
It is funny that the amount of "proven reserves" keeps going up as new fields are discovered in unexpected places, not to mention that hydrocarbons have been detected in space. Not likely to be too many forests or dinosaurs on Jupiter.