[razorgirl]

"If petroleum and natural gas are abiotic as we maintain in 'Black Gold Stranglehold,'" Corsi commented, "then the 'peak oil' fear that we are going to run out of oil may have been based on a giant misconception."

Peak oil is based on what is actually getting pumped out of the ground. Whether it was from dead dinos, or crushed rocks, the sobering realities are that the current most productive oil fields are the ones discovered in the 50s or earlier. Oklahoma and Indonesia fields have already past their peak production.

[seastay]

well there is plenty on titan!

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

No, what it means is look for it in places where declared it was impossible to find oil in.

The ancient shallow seas theory would be out the window. At present, if exploratory drilling cores show no ancient seas sedimentary rock, forgedbodit.

[DBeers]

Peak oil is based on what is actually getting pumped out of the ground. Whether it was from dead dinos, or crushed rocks, the sobering realities are...

Peak oil theory is now officially and scientifically dead -the liberal tree huggers can drag the green corpse around attempting to mimic it alive BUT who cares...

[VeniVidiVici]

Seems kinda silly to base the concept of "peak production" on existing fields. No wonder nobody wants to explore anymore ;-)

[Old Professer]

"are already past" or "have already passed" are both correct forms of the phrase, your conclusions aside.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Perhaps because those older fields were found to have been refilling after they have been drained, contrary to expectations. Their once believing that an oil field was a lake of dinosaur residue made them believe it was a confined area. Now that the fields are refilling, the common belief is that petroleum is a liquid strata of the earth's core.

The newer fields, though past their peak, may yet refill in the future and still prove viable.