[ConservativeMind]

So, it looks like the environmental Nazis are wrong yet again. We don't have a "finite" supply of hydrocarbons and for all we know, virtually all of our oil came from non-plant sources.

[Admin Moderator]

Do you have a link?

[netmilsmom]

No one will believe this.

Oil “running out” is the way to control our lives.

[steveo]

Was it Io or some other moon they said had strong evidence of hydrocarbons?

[FormerRep]

Very interesting. Thanks for the link.

[SlowBoat407]

"The notion that hydrocarbons generated in the mantle migrate into the Earth's crust and contribute to oil-and-gas reservoirs was promoted in Russia and Ukraine many years ago.

It was inwented in Leningrad.

[fso301]

This theory has been around for some time and has been discussed many times on FR.

If oil is in fact being continuously produced in large quantities from deep within the crust and seeping up, why then is oil typically found in geologic basins?

[VeniVidiVici]

I knew it seemed we had gone through a fair share of dead dinosaurs already. Either that or those suckers covered every inch of the planet.

[ClearCase_guy]

I believe Thomas Gold did interesting work in this direction as well. The ideas are out there, and some evidence has been gathered — but there seems to be no real urge to make an effort and prove or disprove it.

[mysterio]

Color me unconvinced.

[Islander7]

I worked in the oil patch many years ago. I worked for Welex a now defunct subsidiary of Halliburton...gasp!. We were deep well completion experts since our party was the furtherest east in the company. Some of the well we shot into production were 23,000 to 25,000 feet.

I’ve never believed crude oil was formed from plant and / or animal remains. Do the math! How many billions of gallons of crude have been pumped out of the ground since 1859? Sorry, there has never been enough plant material available to form so much crude. Think about; only a tiny fraction would be deposited in the right conditions to be transformed into crude. The over whelming majority rots.

[DennisR]

“The oil and gas that fuels our homes and cars started out as living organisms that died, were compressed, and heated under heavy layers of sediments in the Earth’s crust.”

I believe this is a ridiculous, unprovable thing to say. The number of “living organisms” it would take to create the billions and billions of barrels of petroleum we have used or will use is unfathomable. I believe the oil and gas fields - just like other inaminate objects such as water, air, and rocks - were here from the day God created the earth.

So for that reason, “fossil fuels” is a misnomer. “Carbon fuel”? Fine.

[Ben Mugged]

Whaddaya know, oil as a renewable resource.

[norwaypinesavage]

And did the hydrocarbons on Jupiter’s moons come from decaying organic material, too?

[TIElniff]

Check out zionoil.com to read about a current application of the abiotic oil theory, in Israel of all places!

[smokingfrog]

So we need to stop calling it “fossil fuel.”

[PapaBear3625]

So, it looks like the environmental Nazis are wrong yet again. We don't have a "finite" supply of hydrocarbons and for all we know, virtually all of our oil came from non-plant sources.

It depends on the rate of production versus the rate of consumption. Even if hydrocarbons are being formed in the mantle, if the rate at which oil reservoirs get replenished is a tiny percentage of consumption, we face the same situation as we would if there was no mantle production.

[TOneocon]

This is more good reading.

[marron]

Jupiter is a ball of hydrogen.

Some of the moons and planets seem to be made of frozen methane.

So I’d say that hydrocarbons are the basic building blocks of the universe. The universe is made of hydrocarbons.

[Cyman]

During the “gas shortages” of the seventies, we were told oil and gas reserves would be gone in 25-30 years. We are absolutely awash in both more than forty years post predicted hydrocarbon apocalypse

[mad_as_he$$]

Based upon other reports I have said this for 15 years. Wells recently reopened have a different chemical make up than the first oil pumped - oh and guess what many are recharged to or greater than the original levels.