Posted on 03/19/2012 6:58:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Barack Obama and his green energy confederates are determined to scare the public about a declining supply of "fossil fuels." If we accept the idea that oil is produced by the conversion of organic matter -- from plants to dinosaurs -- under extreme pressure, we must also accept the idea that there is a limited supply of oil and that we've got to do everything we can to find a replacement for fossil fuels before we run out.
The evidence is mounting that not only do we have more than a century's worth of recoverable oil in the United States alone (even if there is a limit to the earth's oil supply), but that we also actually have a limitless supply of Texas tea because oil is in fact a renewable resource that is being constantly created deep under the earth's surface and which rises upward, where microscopic organisms that thrive in the intense pressure and heat miles below us interact with and alter it.
In other words, we have an unending supply of oil, some of which is constantly migrating upward from the depths at which it is created to refill existing oil deposits, and much more of which remains far below the surface. This oil can be recovered using existing technology. Scientist Thomas Gold presents the decades-old theory of "abiotic" oil-creation, which supports these facts, in his book, The Deep Hot Biosphere. In it he explains that the idea of the "biotic" creation of "fossil fuels" -- that decaying organic matter is compressed into oil -- is incorrect. In fact, the earth is constantly producing new oil very deep below its surface, and in some cases the oil flows up to replenish existing oil fields thought to be exhausted.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
And all that heat fromt he earth’s core comes for the decay of elements like Thorium, so Oil is powered by Thorium!!!
If we could harness that power somehow, somehow.....
“I’m no scientist, but being on FR has taught me to think a bit.....That said, what if drilling a well and removing oil somehow “stimulates” the creation process and the more we use then the more is created?”
My family has been in the oil business for about 100 years and we have never seen any sign of that happening. Besides there is no link between where oil is being produced and where it is being formed.
Yup: Coal is definitely fossil. Oil? ... well, I am still listening to the arguments and evidence on both sides.
Thanks for the lesson. I always admit when I was wrong.
“I’m no scientist, but being on FR has taught me to think a bit....”
Ha, I should have said that being on FR has taught me to TRY to think a bit...Not necessarily correctly or anything, but at least to try.
Precisely. As Machiavelli said long ago: "When cities or provinces have been accustomed to live under a prince... they do not know how to live in freedom... and a prince can win them over with greater faculty and establish himself securely. But in republics, there is greater life...they do not and cannot cast aside the memory of their ancient liberty, so that the surest way to conquer them is to lay them waste."
There is no better description for what the wrecking crew behind 0bama aim to do - to lay us waste. None of them are fit to live in a free society. Time for a new Crusade.
Mexia (pronounced Muhaya if you ain’t from Texas). One of the fields that helped build Humble Oil, now known as Exxon. Not too many active wells around there now.
We are told many Moons and Planets in our solar system have lakes of methane(natural gas).. or atmospheres (of it)..
Where did all that natural gas in liquid form come from?..
Decaying vegetable matter?.. And if natural gas why not also OIL in some form.. be present as well.. The MOONS could have oil deposits..
Note: Methane = natural gas = stuff we heat our houses with..
This last para tells why the media wants us to select Mittens as our candidate.
What part, exactly?
Keep reading the thread. When you reach this post, ask me again if you want.
O.K. For argument’s sake, let’s agree that “fossil fuels” are not “fossil” in orgin, but geologic. And that there is a geologic process by which they are ‘continually’ forming.
Even then, if that thesis can be proven, then at some point we will have to discover “at what rate” (posssibly site-by-site) the “renewable” process is ocurring, because even a renewable process is not, in the short term (immediate demands) limitless. Economics works best on factual thesis not theoretical ones, so “best price” will still want to know what reserves are “known” or at least known based on accepted standards.
And, at the end of the day (what century?), it would be helpful to NOT have demand forever seeking deeper and deeper sources to the point it is no longer ‘renewable’, but being drained at the final reserves, with any new demand waiting upon the geologic process, and geologic time-scales.
At some point, diversity and flexibility of energy seems to offer more security.
The only thing that makes these new “discoveries” viable is $100 a barrel oil. The wells are very expensive and are characterized with high decline rates. The same goes for the tar sands in Canada, i.e. Keystone XL pipeline. It doesn’t fly with $30 oil. The world is running out of “easy” oil. The bulk of it is either in unconventional reservoirs (Bakken, Eagle Ford, etc.,) in 7,000’ of water or greater (i.e. deepwater Gulf of Mexico and Brazil,)or in countries that don’t like dealing with the infidels. There is no longer a free oil lunch like our parents and grandparents.
I like your idea,
but do you think that 0bama would hesitate about the penalty? It’s not coming from HIS stash.
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