Nuclear and geothermal energy, in addiction to that which bubbles up from below, may serve well. Solar can be refined and seems to be as consistent in terms of energy as anything known throughout the ages. There may also be an undiscovered source of energy. Once we find it and make use of it, how will will we use it, and will that use be in accord with what is good and right? We are stewards of God’s creation.
Oil – Where did it come from?.....Easy. Titusville, PA. I always tell visitors “ This is where all the crap in the world, today, came from. Poor old Edwin didn’t realize the shitstorm he released.
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It’s not dinosaurs.
For the people who didn’t read the article, the author is pretty clear on where oil comes from: algae and plankton die, sink to the bottom of ocean, and are buried in sediment. Eventually the sediment-algae mixture is covered in miles of sedument so that it turns into rock with embedded organic material. Thermo-chemical processes turn the algae into oil and gas.
All oil is biogenic. Some methane may be abiogenic.
Oil companies saved the whales.
first the earth cooled, then came the dinosaurs but they were killed off by the white man for their oil
We have planets and moons in our solar system with more hydrocarbons than we can imagine. How many dinosaurs lived on Titan?
Consider that the earth is basically a planet-sized, gravity-powered crock pot and that everything on this planet is eventually pulled down inside and slow cooked.
And, just like with a crock pot, the oils released during cooking slowly rise and accumulate over time.
That's what we are tapping into when we drill, and is what bubbles up into tar pits, as well as from the cracks in the ocean floor to be washed ashore on beaches around the world: the all-natural oils released during cooking.
Run out of oil? Not going to happen unless you empty the crock pot or you turn off gravity.