[thackney]

Crude oil actually contains microfossils. They are used in the analysis of the oil to learn about the depositional environment in which the rock unit formed.

More info at:

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/ONeill.html

[Psalm 73]

I appreciate your analysis and you have a far greater grasp of the subject than I do - I can understand how frustrating this can be for you - but I'm still not sold on organic sediment becoming petroleum.
We would probably agree on a thousand other topics, though!