[Spacetrucker]

With all due respect, your comments indicate that you are going on the presumption that our petroleum “reserves” are a finite product - have you ever considered that oil could replentish over time?

[thackney]

If you are interested in learning more about aboitic oil claims, I suggest reading:

No Free Lunch, Part 1:
A Critique of Thomas Gold’s Claims for Abiotic Oil
by Jean Laherrere
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/102104_no_free_pt1.shtml

No Free Lunch, Part 2:
If abiotic oil exists, where is it?
by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/011205_no_free_pt2.shtml

[Ouderkirk]

My comments reflect the presumption that I don't know whether oil is biologic or abiotic. I have read theories about both, and as I indicated, both of them make some sense. However, in my opinion neither theory is conclusive. Without empirical evidence I don't know what to think. To me it is logical to operate on the presumption that oil is a finite resource, at least in the short term and if proven other wise all the better.