[Strategerist]

There is a vast, vast, vast, vast difference between Methane and the hydrocarbons in petroleum.

Quite the strawman construction there...precisely nobody has ever claimed all methane is biological.

[tpaine]

-- There is no 'question' whatsoever that methane is formed throughout the solar system by heat & pressure.
-- After all, 'Gas Giant' planets do exist.

Thus the only question remaining is: -- why is that fact ignored when we discuss the formation of hydrocarbons on earth?

There is a vast, vast, vast, vast difference between Methane and the hydrocarbons in petroleum.

So the people that sell hydrocarbons claim. - Isn't that amazing. -- Gold however explains in his book how biological activities can form petroleum from methane, deep in the "hot biosphere" .

Quite the strawman construction there...precisely nobody has ever claimed all methane is biological.

But you fellas claim all petroleum is scarce because it's biological. - A self serving argument when you sell the stuff, no?