Oil, petroleum, IS a renewable resource. Mother Earth is creating more all the time. Ever since the earth cooled enough so that water vapor could form ice, there has been also a formation of compounds known as "clathrates", which resemble ice, but include methane or other gaseous hydrocarbons bound up in water, and which remain stable at temperatures below about 38 degrees Fahrenheit. Being slightly more dense than water (unlike ice formed of water only), these sink to the bottom of any body of water, and collect in the sediment. They remain unchanged as long as the temperature does not exceed about 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
When warmed, these compounds undergo a phase change, and become gaseous natural gas. But left undisturbed on the ocean floor, and covered with sediment, eventually these pockets are trapped under solidified rock (usually, but not always, sandstone overcovered by shale). If there is come kind of catalyst present (probably an elemental iron-nickel mixture), the methane in this compound will be converted to longer-chain hydrocarbons, forming a mixture known as "kerogen", which when extracted from the earth as petroleum, is refined into the various fractions like kerosene, gasoline, Diesel fuel, heating oil, lubricating oil, and heavier tar-like substances.
This normally takes place over a period of centuries, or eons. The process may be rapidly accelerated under laboratory conditions, so the reaction takes place in a matter of hours.
There is also another process going on, that takes place when decaying organic matter is thrust deep into the earth by geological processes, resulting in this organic matter being put under tremendous heat, and considerable pressure. Thermal Depolymerization breaks down carbohydrates, proteins and fats into water and hydrocarbons, a process which can also be duplicated in the laboratory, and in fact, has been used in a commercial basis, to convert slaughterhouse waste into a form of light crude oil.
Hey, you want to know how to make kryptonite? Learned this in a college chemistry course....
It really doesn't matter if oil is "renewable". There is easily a hundred years of oil out there. Even the enviro-wackos know that. Thus the global warming baloney is needed as the reason to stop using oil.
Do any of us seriously believe that technology will not find replacements for burning oil within a hundred years?
When I was a senior in HS (69-70) I was learning to use a slide rule. By 1972 Texas Instruments had come out with its famous calculator. At $100+ each. The same one you can buy now for $5. Laser technology was not much past the sci fi stage. I deal with hundreds of companies that laser engrave everything from $2 ball point pens and up. That $39 DVD burner I put in my PC recently? Could a million bucks have bought laser technology that sophisticated? Who knows?
I could go on and on. The point is that we all see progress as a sort of snap shot. In reality things change so continuously and quickly as to make today outdated before it even becomes tomorrow.
There’s more environmental and science knowledge in your one FR post than what resides inside the hollow heads of the entire environmental movement. Kudos to you.