[Dan Cooper]

Gold suggested bacteria deep in the Earth were creating the carbon compounds.

Gold suggested that hydrocarbons are formed from primordial methane upwelling from the inner crust and that bacteria evolved that could feed on these hydrocarbon and oxygen from the surrounding rocks.

[f.Christian]

bttt

[norraad]

Anyone working in a refinery knows by his/her nose that the stuff is made by "mutha' Earth any which way she can.

It's just "stuff" composted underground w/o O2, mostly dead plantlife.

Lab guys will tell you many of it's molecules resemble leaf waxes.