[rigelkentaurus]

The concept that oil and gas are from dinosaurs. That science seems about as true as glowbull warming.

[Sarcasm Factory]

I've always had grave doubts myself about the fossil-fuel theory of oil. Still, I genuinely don't know either what to make of the abiotic oil theory either. Who knows what the hell is going on deep in the bowels of the planet? For example, geologists are saying that the earth contains vast, ancient oceans of water with extremely odd, slow life forms. That's fascinating!

Maybe oil is formed largely by purely chemical processes, after which it seeps nearer the upper crust and is mixed so much with ancient fossil remains that it *looks* if the oil stemmed from those fossil remains with which to begin. Notwithstanding the jeering and hatred for Thomas Gold amongst allegedly "mainstream" scientists, I'm inclined to continue to reserve judgement.

As for the idiotic notion of anthropogenic global warming — it's sheer bullpuckey. o_o

[TheThirdRuffian]

“The concept that oil and gas are from dinosaurs.”

I’ve never heard that theory.

I’ve always understood it was from massive deposits of decayed organic matter — mainly algae and other plants in old sea beds, trapped by reefs or a shelf or the like.

But what do I know. I’m just a geologist and petroleum engineer that finds old reefs in the Permian and Delaware basins and has made myself ridiculously comfortable, with a couple of oil fields named after me by locating the same.

The smashed coral and micro-fossils of undersea critters that come up in the drilling cuttings seems a pretty good clue, too.

Never saw dinosaurs, unless you count tiny, tiny, tiny snails as dinosaurs.