[Strategerist]

If that is the case why do we have oil wells drying up?

As silly as it sounds, some of these folks don't think any oil wells are drying up.

There is a tiny handful of oil wells (one in the Gulf of Mexico in particular) where a well appeared to have been "refilled"...which can be explained by migration of normally formed biogenic oil from another location.

However that was seized upon and exaggerated into "Oil wells all over the world are refilling and nobody knows why!" in support of abiogenic oil theories, and repeated ad nauseam.

Then you'll see experienced oil workers and oil geologists pop in and mention they've seen many, many wells and fields play out and not refill, and they're ignored, of course.

[trashcanbred]

I don't get it... why would people purposely ignore these facts? I mean... we may all want unlimited oil supplies to be true... but to argue for this theory and yet there is no proof of it just seems mad. I am all for exploring the idea but this one small experiment doesn't really seem to say all that much in terms of what Gold said.