Posted on 02/02/2008 1:52:27 AM PST by Fred Nerks
The last paragraph of this newsletter would certainly infuriate a liberal...
“The notion that hydrocarbon use must be reduced because of diminishing supply rested on two tenets - very small known reserves and the “fossil’’ fuel hypothesis, which implies very slow ongoing production and minimal undiscovered reserves. The free market has destroyed the first of these two tenets for at least the next 1,000 years. If research destroys the “fossil’’ idea, even our very distant descendants will not be limited. (Given the rate of technological advance, they will also likely be able to make any petroleum they need by other means.)”
http://www.accesstoenergy.com/view/atearchive/s76a2321.htm
(So, if algore thinks there are too many people on the planet, let him go first!)
can it be that when God created the earth, He also created the oil under the earth? Just as He created the water under, on and over the earth. We all live near a forest and yet when the trees and animals in that forest decays there are no oil deposits underneath it. And, you can go back to biblical times, the middle east wasn’t the best groing place for forests where the trees and foliage decayed forming oil from the trapped energy from the leaf photosynthesis.
Do these hypothetical microbes also create the molecular remnants of chlorophyll, marine algae, and flowering land plants that are found in many crude oils? Crude oils whose shale source beds were deposited before the evolution of flowering plants do not contain the molecular biomarkers for flowering plants.
That is not to say that some low molecular weight hydrocarbons might not be generated in deep formations, but it is not the source of most crude oils.
If you take the marine organic matter deposited in shales and heat it in a lab, you create crude oil with all the appropriate biomarkers. Oil is not found in any significant amounts in areas that do not have large organic shale (or in some cases, carbonate) source beds. If Gold's theory were correct, then why aren't significant amounts of oil found in those source-bed deficient areas?
Oil reservoirs that refill are by far the exception rather than the rule. There are explanations for the phenomena, including continuing upward spill or migration from lower reservoirs that filled the higher reservoirs in the first place.
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