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Old 12-16-2018, 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted by SonicFlyer View Post
Actually this is a myth. Oil is a natural byproduct of internal processes of the earth.
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Old 12-16-2018, 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted by SonicFlyer View Post
Actually this is a myth. Oil is a natural byproduct of internal processes of the earth.
Regardless of whether that's true or not, we have clearly exhausted many oil fields. Those show no sign of regenerating. Whatever mechanism may or may not exist to regenerate accessible oil reserves, it does not appear to operate quickly enough for us.
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Old 12-16-2018, 07:19 PM
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Originally Posted by galaxy flyer View Post
The “running out of oil” canard has been running since the 1920’s, do keep up, please. I had a UA captain during the first energy crunch tell me, in all seriousness, we would run out in July 1979. Didn’t happen.

You might note the increase in US oil production using fracking technology after years of production declines.

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We actually would have hit "peak oil" some years ago... based on historical oil prices and extraction technology.

Technology advances, and price increases to pay for them, have put off peak oil for the foreseeable future. I suspect we'll migrate to renewable, greener, energy before we no kidding run out. Aircraft may be among the last consumers of bulk oil products, and by that time it could be 50% or more bio fuel.
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Old 12-16-2018, 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Akutan Bandit View Post
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He may not be totally out to lunch. I don't really buy it, but everything you need to make oil exists in the Earth, even without Jurassic bio mass (carbon, hydrogen, heat, pressure).
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Old 12-16-2018, 09:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Akutan Bandit View Post
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Obviously not a definitive source by any means, but it is a good starting point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abioge...troleum_origin


You might just learn something if you simply open your mind.
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Old 12-17-2018, 04:49 AM
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Originally Posted by SonicFlyer View Post
Obviously not a definitive source by any means, but it is a good starting point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abioge...troleum_origin


You might just learn something if you simply open your mind.
Wikipedia really?
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Old 12-17-2018, 06:12 AM
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How about this....

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/e...dia/petroleum/

I don’t understand why this is being disputed. Apparently almost no one here knows anything about geology.


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Old 12-17-2018, 06:40 AM
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Originally Posted by 4V14T0R View Post
I don’t understand why this is being disputed.
Because there is scientific evidence that disputes it.

Originally Posted by Riverside View Post
Wikipedia really?
You must not have read my entire post, go back and try again.
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Old 12-17-2018, 07:32 AM
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Wikipedia really?
Is this mo' betta?

https://energy.usgs.gov/Geochemistry...Petroleum.aspx

Seriously, did you believe that old story about oil being from dead dinosaurs?
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Originally Posted by Excargodog View Post
Is this mo' betta?

https://energy.usgs.gov/Geochemistry...Petroleum.aspx

Seriously, did you believe that old story about oil being from dead dinosaurs?
But but but it's fossil fuel!
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