I like the way these articles make liberals’ heads explode.
I have been saying this for decades now.... “fossil fuels” is nothing but a myth... want proof, bury a dead animal in your yard, return in a year and dig it up... you have bones and dirt, not oil.... millions of years will not turn bone or dirt to oil.... ashes to ashes, dust to dust (not ashes to oil, dust to oil).. another econazi myth..
Oil and gas are renewable resources. Always have been. Anyone in that industry understands it. Only and idiot or fool or government hack believe it comes from “dino-sources”
I remember Rush Limbaugh talking about this years ago. It’s seems that old oil wells are filling back up from farther underground. Which could only mean that either the earth is a LOT older than scientists believe and we are only tapping the “top layer” of oil (which seems unlikely as there are other methods to measure the age of the earth), or at least a portion of the oil is being produced by a non-biological process down near the mantle and working it’s way up (which would mean that the supply of oil is essentially limitless). While this theory is certainly not mainstream, there is some evidence, not the least of which is the abundance of hydrocarbons the moons of Saturn, which certainly weren’t produced by biological means.
I remember Rush Limbaugh talking about this years ago. It’s seems that old oil wells are filling back up from farther underground. Which could only mean that either the earth is a LOT older than scientists believe and we are only tapping the “top layer” of oil (which seems unlikely as there are other methods to measure the age of the earth), or at least a portion of the oil is being produced by a non-biological process down near the mantle and working it’s way up (which would mean that the supply of oil is essentially limitless). While this theory is certainly not mainstream, there is some evidence, not the least of which is the abundance of hydrocarbons on the moons of Saturn, which certainly weren’t produced by biological means.
I’ve always agreed with abiotic oil but would add that we need to determine the “balance point” of our use v. abiotic production.
Honest question here: Is it possible to used carbon dating on oil?
If it were found to all be millions of years old then yes there is a finite limit based upon how much we are bringing to the surface.
If it were found to be much younger then a case could be made that it is being produced now and then we would need to know how much per decade vs how much we are extracting.
Ping!..............
This has been pretty evident for a while, oil is not a limited resource created by dead and long decayed plat and organic matter, but the end result of processes within the earth.
Of course, can’t say for 100% certainty that is what is going on, but we have never been able to say with 100% certainty that the current believe its created from long dead organic matter is right either. They have based this belief on the fact that coal is obviously created that way, and that organic markers can be found in oil.
However if Oil is produced by microbial action far below the surface, finding organic residue in oil would be expected.
I think the evidence that its not limited supply, has been mounting for a long long time, but no one wants to accept this reality.
I have no idea whether or not this idea corresponds with the facts, or not.
But it is a testable hypotheses, it seems to me. So a government that was concerned with the American people (i.e., one that we haven’t had in a long time) would invest a little money and find out. Or permit private enterprise to do so.
Russian geoscientists have always said this. The left can’t stand the idea that someone else runs something......
It’s about time
Fossil fuel deniers- advance!
look up “abiogenic oil”
I’ve often thought that the sheer volume of petroleum seems a little bit unexplainable by the (relatively) small amount of time in geologic history to explain it. Only an infinitessimal amount of vegetation ends up being transformed into petroleum. So, while 600 million years may seem like a long time, the question to be answered is: “given observable processes, is it really enough?”
It doesn't matter if oil is a renewing resource. What matters is whether new oil is being created at a rate comparable to the rate at which it is being consumed. If it's being created at a rate 0.01% of the consumption rate, then the fact has little importance.
We can be pretty sure that any creation rate is much less than the current consumption rate. If oil had been being created at the current consumption rate over the last million years, the oceans would be filled with oil rather than water.
Reason is, a buddy of mine in the oil fields of West Texas told me that long dry oil well suddenly had oil in them again.
Had did the oil get there?
Heck, who knows, but don't expect academics to admit anything that doesn't fit their narrative of doing away with oil and gas.
Hi, SAF:
This would be sweet!
Earth and Titan are 2 giant meth labs
Thank you for posting this. It is a re-hash of an old article, but it is very relevent now. I was trying to find that old article, but have not had any success.