[T. P. Pole]

Wasn't this Gold's argument?

[lelio]

There's a book on it, The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels by Thomas Gold and Freeman Dyson.

[jimkress]

Look here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/691305/posts

[backhoe]

Potential oil supply refill?

The world has more oil not less

The Origin of Methane (and Oil) in the Crust of the Earth
Thomas Gold
U.S.G.S. Professional Paper 1570, The Future of Energy Gases, 1993

PETROLEUM RESERVES EVALUATED WITH MODERN PETROLEUM SCIENCE

Another Washington Post article here

Oil Fields' Free Refill - More oil than we thought (maybe)

[mjf]

From this site: (nineplanets.org)

Neptune's blue color is largely the result of absorption of red light by methane in the atmosphere but there is some additional as-yet-unidentified chromophore which gives the clouds their rich blue tint.

The simplest molicule is Hydrogen. From what we know, that is what powers the stars. It is also one of the most prevalent molicules in the universe. It's all over the place. The methane on Neptune is not the result of Dinosaur farts.

[bloggerjohn]

They're missing something. If this was the first organic material in existence, then it stands to reason that we would have the same organic structure since life came from oil, not vice versa.

But it opens the interesting possibility that we won't run out of oil, as predicted with the breakeven point as close as ten years away, if we can find some way of drilling much, much deeper.