It’s time for conservatives to yell ...
Solar — all the oil in the ground, once came from energy the sun dropped on the earth. The trees grew, they fell down, and decayed. IT’S ALL SOLAR ENERGY. No energy ever cam from anywhere other the our sun.
Hydroelectric?
“No energy ever came from anywhere other the our sun”
How about Geothermal?
Is Volcanic activity within the crust of the Earth a function of the Fusion reaction of the Sun?
I am asking, not lecturing.
Iceland runs their entire island off of the geothermal energy stored underneath their land mass. Now, they still have to import petroleum products for their automobiles. However, of anywhere in the world where electric cars make sense, it would be Iceland.
Does anyone else know do they produce electricity on the Big Island of Hawaii from Geothermal?
Good analogy, I tell my freshmen oil is just fossilized sunlight. You are close trees and terrestrial biomass do not produce oil under normal Geological conditions they turn to peat then coal of various grades then ultimately methane gas and solid graphite carbon. Liquid hydrocarbons are nearly all formed from kerogen which has been deep enough long enough to have gone through the oil window. The biomass that formed kerogen in the past is micro marine algae ,freshwater algae and blackish diatoms. This is why 90+ % of liquid hydrocarbons are found in former Marine sedimentary basins. Fresh water lakes of sufficient size can also produce significant micro algae or diatoms it takes over a tonne of prehistoric biomass to make a single gallon of liquid petrol.
Yes as a matter of fact I am a MSc petroleum geologist 20+ years in the industry. PhD in hydrogeology as well.