Most of the people commenting on this thread need to put away the crack pipe and actually do some research about the occurrence and generation of hydrocarbons. Some of them sound like they failed junior high earth science. Oil and gas are being generated but at a rate that is too slow to be relevant to us. Not to mention that it takes millennium for it to migrate into a trap and be “concentrated” enough for us to produce. Oil, based on the human time scale, is a finite resource.
Free Republic is highly unique when it comes to science. You have FReepers who are very well versed in the physical sciences and FReepers who completely ignorant on the subject. For the life of me, I can’t figure why the middle of the curve isn’t represented here.