[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.

[SVTCobra03]

The abiotic oil myth surfaces from time to time on FR. This may help:

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/011205_no_free_pt2.shtml

[3niner]

There is much that is not understood about the origin of geological hydrocarbons. The are several, circular oil fields, which appear to have been created by ancient meteor strikes. There are also oil fields, which were depleted decades ago, that are now partially replenished.

[Para-Ord.45]

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[bert]

The research and experiments validate thinking that has been publicized before.

There is likely also methane produced from decay and associated with coal that als9o contributes to the gas production. Some is fossil fuel.

It is likely both not either or

[onedoug]

Please produce any evidence of hydrocarbons being present in any but sedimentary deposits.

Thank you.

[Smokin' Joe]

This stuff surfaces from time to time here. I have spent thirty years working in the oil industry, and if anyone has a link to a source which can document the abiotic production of oil, please post it.

Otherwise, the 'Aw geez,...' guy might be more appropriate.

While producing diamonds from coal in the laboratory is theoretically possible, there is not one instance in nature where an economically viable diamond deposit has been found in a coal vein, either.

[Teotwawki]

In "Black Gold Stranglehold," Jerome Corsi and Craig Smith expose the fraudulent science that has made America so vulnerable: the belief that oil is a fossil fuel and that it is a finite resource. This book reveals the conclusions reached by Dr. Thomas Gold, a professor at Cornell University, in his seminal book "The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels" (Copernicus Books, 1998) and accepted by many in the scientific community that oil is not a product of fossils and prehistoric forests but rather the bio-product of a continuing biochemical reaction below the earth's surface that is brought to attainable depths by the centrifugal forces of the earth's rotation.

[Straight Vermonter]

Ping

[Ann Archy]

DUH!! I have said that Oil doesn’t come from dead plants and animals....it MUST come from PRESSURE on ROCKS and SAND.

[Doomonyou]

RL

[Kevmo]

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