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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
"It is a natural by-product from the Earth. It is not the result of dinosaur carcasses.It is not a fossil fuel. It is an organic molecular that is just as natural as solar or wind energy."

However, you'll play hell trying to convince anyone of that. That methane, common throughout the solar system, will combine with water, and under high heat and high pressure, be converted?

That these hydrocarbons, seeping up from the Mantle, are trapped by certain geologic formations, mostly sedimentary, like buried swamps, sand bars, salt domes? That these organics contaminate the petroleum, so that some are high sulfur, some are sweet, some are sour, or even are solids, like coal fields?

That so called "exhausted" wells are slowly refilling? That "Peak Oil" is as stupid a belief as seances and astrology?

99 posted on 10/22/2020 9:13:20 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: jonascord
That so called "exhausted" wells are slowly refilling?

I've seen no studies showing anything other than very slow refilling. Much much slower than pumping it out.

118 posted on 10/22/2020 9:34:35 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: jonascord

You need a lesson in hydrocarbon generation and migration. I doesn’t come from the mantle. It is a little too warm there.


203 posted on 10/23/2020 6:29:36 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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