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To: Crim

My guess is that we are currently using oil faster than the earth is producing it, but it does show that there is a lot more out there than previously thought and we should go use it. The more oil they find and the more we use, the more skeptical I am that it was formed only from decomposing animal matter. There is too much oil in too many different rock types and formations for that.

Coal, on the other hand, while also plentiful, is more than likely formed from decaying plant matter. It does have the fossils in it. Lots more plant matter than animal matter. Always has been.


10 posted on 04/18/2011 6:29:42 AM PDT by henkster (Every member of Congress must put the fate of the nation over their next re-election campaign)
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To: henkster

Considering we can make light, sweet crude from our own garbage, I would say that the idea that oil can only be made of decaying animals is a fantasy that should have been removed from the public idea 50 years ago.


12 posted on 04/18/2011 6:33:37 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: henkster
"oil in too many different rock types"

Igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary.

If you find hydrocarbons located within the igneous rock, you can make the case for abiotic oil, but if you find the hydrocarbon trapped by the igneous rock, you can't make the case.

If you find hydrocarbons located within metamorphic and/or sedimentary rock, you made the case for an organic origin. If you find hydrocarbons trapped by metamorphic and/or sedimentary rock, you can't make the case for abiotic oil.

18 posted on 04/18/2011 6:48:55 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: henkster

And there are more than a dozen different varieties of coal.


20 posted on 04/18/2011 6:52:46 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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This guy has a more exciting idea which is now being mass-produced in Florida.
Cold Fusion!
29 posted on 04/18/2011 7:24:22 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are .)
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To: henkster
My guess is that we are currently using oil faster than the earth is producing it

For any that think differently than that, they should try applying the math of our current consumption rate times a few hundred million years.

The volume would suggest if that was possible, the problem would not be finding oil, but how to keep from drowning in it.

45 posted on 04/18/2011 7:58:34 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer (biblein90days.org))
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