[fireforeffect]

Most of the "peak oil" and limited supply panic mongers know nothing about how oil is produced or where it comes from.

The truth is we will never run out of oil but we may reach a limit to how much we can pull out of the ground at any one time.

Oil is made by methane percolating up from the earths core, becoming trapped in rock formations and being compressed into oil over time. This is the current view of competent geologist, very simplified.

Just remember when driving around, NO DINOSAURS DIED TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE!

[Brilliant]

No one knows exactly how oil is made, so it's a pretty dumb nut who bets the farm on the assumption that we will have oil forever, because it's being produced everyday. Remember that the Earth has been around for about 4 billion years. If it took 4 billion years to produce the oil we've consumed over the last 1-1/2 centuries, then it's going to be a long wait before new supplies become available.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Oil is made by methane percolating up from the earths core, becoming trapped in rock formations and being compressed into oil over time. This is the current view of competent geologist, very simplified.

I thought the Earth's core was made up of iron and maybe nickel as well. When did the thinking on the core's composition change?