But unless you think the earth went hundreds of millions of years doing nothing, then magically started spitting out oil at 90 millions barrels a day, then we are using it faster than it is being produced.
“But unless you think the earth went hundreds of millions of years doing nothing, then magically started spitting out oil at 90 millions barrels a day, then we are using it faster than it is being produced.”
What purpose is this post?
If the Earth produced trillions and trillions of barrels of oil over the years, so what if we now produce it faster than it is generated?
Sorta like if one drinks a gallon a day from a lake that has a billion gallons of water in it and is not being replenished.
It is drying up by your analogy, but so what, it still contains a bunch of water.
Niagara Falls alone has a daily flow of over 300 million barrels. How many waterfalls, larger and smaller, than Niagara relentlessly produce these amounts and much more? Yes, water isn't oil but I use the example to illustrate that 90 million bbls is not at all a large amount, globally.
You need to remember the gargantuan scale of Earth.
We have no idea what is going on inside the planet. We pretend to but the rate at which we append our "knowledge" of what we can only guess at is the highest rate of all!
90 million bbls every day sure sounds big. Until you compare it to other colossal processes underway always. Once one looks around suddenly that 90 million number becomes peanuts.
Yes, earth is finite, it can be measured. But for our puny selves it may as well be infinite.
And then there's the Expanding Earth argument to consider...!