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There is no such thing as “peak petroleum” as it is being constantly produced, by largely abiotic means, continuously. There is no limited supply of “dinosaur soup” that we shall use up in our lifetimes, and if we do, we have the technical capability to transform other organic substances into the amount and quality of synthetic petroleum we need.

Petroleum is a very compact and easily transformed energy storage medium. We have built most of the infrastructure over the past century on the easy access to coal, petroleum and their derivatives. To try to limit the extraction of energy to “approved” and politically correct methods, is to so artificially handicap ourselves, that we BECOME the third world nation.

Here is to more thorough and advanced methods of “reclaiming” the supposedly pumped-out and abandoned sources of the past, and revitalizing all that is truly American.

Conversion of mineral riches to wealth hs always been the key to greater prosperity, and any means which expedites this process only contributes to the overall growth.

Growth is not merely essential, it is the antidote to death and dying.

There is no such thing as “peak petroleum” as it is being constantly produced, by largely abiotic means, continuously.

There are number of reasons showing this myth to be false.

Try to explain why ALL of the oil gas accumilations ONLY are found in sedimentary basis with the aboitic theory.

Why is oil and gas ONLY source to sedimentary rock and nevery found in igneous rocks?

Why does oil breakdown under heat and pressure in a refinery, but is claimed to form from basic components into complex hydrocarbon under similiar condition in aboitic theory?

Here is to more thorough and advanced methods of “reclaiming” the supposedly pumped-out and abandoned sources of the past, and revitalizing all that is truly American.

Traditional oil fields have been know for decades to only recover 20~30% of the oil in place with basic pumping. Most of the oil discovered has been left in place because up until lately, there was no way to economically recover it.

With today's technology and today's prices, we can afford enhanced oil recovery of old fields with process like CO2 flooding of the field. West Texas now has a network of CO2 pipelines to do just that.