[expat_panama]

Not too long ago our president was tossing out the old tired mindless fear-mongering about how we only got ten years of proven oil reserves left. What he didn't say was that we've only had a decade of proven reserves for over a hundred years becuase nobody needs to 'prove' reserves that we won't need more than ten years ahead. It all puts a new light on what we mean by the term "renewable resource". Like, solar power is not 'renewable' if we only got 4 billion years of proven solar reserves...

[doghorse]

I tried to tell people this when it was first theorized maybe over 30 years ago now.

[C210N]

Of course Earth is an oil producing machine.

The fundamental problem is that it is also a libtard producing machine as well.

[Darksheare]

Meanwhile, Saturn’s moon Titan has hydrocarbons on it.
But oil “only” comes from fossil sources.
/ lol.

[crusty old prospector]

But we are using it much faster than it is being formed. How long do you think it takes a droplet of oil to migrate to a trap?

[Nervous Tick]

>> This information backs up the idea that Earth is actually an oil-producing machine.

Makes one wonder if maybe Someone designed it that way!

[bert]

ping for professional input

you convinced me other wise but the theory keeps cropping up

[snarkpup]

I did some reading on abiotic oil a couple of years ago.

On one hand, it seems reasonable. Since carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the galaxy, it would make sense that the Earth would have been born with its share of it.

On the other hand, friends I know in the oil and gas industry don't seem to think there's anything to the theory.

[mountainlion]

Oil is the most powerful political tool on earth.

[BitWielder1]

I believe it.
The sheer quantities we have pumped up, the locations and the depths we have found oil strongly indicates it can't be all dinosaurs, ferns or plankton.
Even if some oil is biological in origin, should it not be possible to verify that somehow?

[Cheerio]

This is the worst news possible for the carbon crowd and America haters.

[rawcatslyentist]

We have a choice on how this volatile pouting goo is disposed of!

Burn it piecemeal in vehicles and manufacturing, or wait for volcanics/techtonics to burn it in one giant ice age producing ELE eruption!

[CPT Clay]

Hmmm

[Marko413]

The thought even crossed my mind as a young teenager in California schools when they told us how all crude oil came from dinosaurs. They would even go so far in the textbooks to illustrate a diagram showing a pocket of oil underground and with a trex skull floating in it.

Even then, I thought... “for all the oil we have been using for roughly 100 years, how have we not already run out?” The epiphany hit me then that maybe oil doesn’t just come from old dinosaurs.

[Theo]

“Research from the last decade found that hydrocarbons are synthesized abiotically.”

Then we should stop calling them “fossil fuels.” They’re likely not.

[PapaBear3625]

It doesn't matter if hydrocarbons are synthesized abioticly.

What matters is the RATE of new production, versus the RATE of consumption. If hydrocarbons were being produced, historically, at the rate we are currently extracting them, then the Earth would have been covered in oil by the time we started drilling.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

the "data imply that hydrocarbons are produced chemically" from carbon found in Earth's mantle.

I thought the science was settled. < /ba dum, tish>

Didn't some Russian scientist propose this in the fifties?

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[Navy Patriot]

Earth Is An Oil-Producing Machine we're Not Running Out

Finally, a grain of truth from the IBD slime.

[1Old Pro]

This information backs up the idea that Earth is actually an oil-producing machine.

Yes and a VERY LARGE one at that.

[puppypusher]

It really doesn’t matter if we have an abundance of energy in this country when you have a government that is artificially creating shortages all the time by boosting taxes on all types of energy.