[exit82]

I'm beginning to believe that the earth creates gas and oil, and we're not burning old dinosaurs

The world uses 90 million barrels a DAY of oil.

Each barrel is 42 gallons.

There's no way that many dinosaurs could have died to create that much oil.

Besides, in the Gulf of Mexico, we are getting oil 18,000 feet down. That's over three miles!

God made oil out of hydrocarbons, it is a natural substance, that's why there is so much of it.

[thackney]

Besides, in the Gulf of Mexico, we are getting oil 18,000 feet down. That's over three miles!

And still in a sedimentary basin comprised of materials laid down from the surface.

Take 1 inch of compacted sediment every thousand years. Now multiple by 400 million years. That is over 6 miles deep.

Where do you think all the sediment that runs out of the Mississippi and other rivers ends up?

[FatherofFive]

There's no way that many dinosaurs could have died to create that much oil.

It is not just Dino. Algae. Plankton.

But I never heard a good explanation why oil wells that went dry, somehow 'refilled' after years.