What If Oil and Natural Gas Are Renewable Resources?

The American Thinker ^ | March 18, 2012 | Greg Lewis

[Cincinatus' Wife]

....The evidence is mounting that not only do we have more than a century's worth of recoverable oil in the United States alone (even if there is a limit to the earth's oil supply), but that we also actually have a limitless supply of Texas tea because oil is in fact a renewable resource that is being constantly created deep under the earth's surface and which rises upward, where microscopic organisms that thrive in the intense pressure and heat miles below us interact with and alter it.

In other words, we have an unending supply of oil, some of which is constantly migrating upward from the depths at which it is created to refill existing oil deposits, and much more of which remains far below the surface. This oil can be recovered using existing technology.

....Russian technology was developed in the 1970s to test the theory by drilling as deep as 40,000 feet into the earth. As a result, Russia was the first nation to begin to understand and exploit these renewable oil reserves, and today their oil industry is thriving.

The political implications for Barack Obama and the radical environmentalist base he panders to with his corrupt "renewable" energy policy are profound. First, as we've seen, the president continually misrepresents the amount of recoverable oil available to us. His assertion that we have "only two percent of the world's oil reserves" available to us is simply a lie, as Susan Duclos documents in this piece. We're awash in oil reserves, and it's up to our political candidates to expose Obama's baseless fabrications about our energy reserves.

Beyond that, most Americans have digested the fact that the entire environmentalist rationale for pursuing "green energy" technology is built on fabricated global warming....

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Worth printing a copy for reference.

[tiki]

My husband has always said this. It really does make sense, I always knew it wasn’t just the dinosaurs.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Take 30 minutes. Expand the video to fill the screen and listen to Newt on American Energy Independence [also a transcript].

[2ndDivisionVet]

“But it’s dirty! And it makes fat-cat capitalist rethuglicans rich! I just mounted a sail on my Chevy Volt so it’ll get me all the way to the Holland tunnel!”

[bopdowah]

Game changer alert!

I have heard of the Russian research on this topic and the results are worth noting. Russian researchers were actually able to duplicate the creation of oil in the laboratory using extremes of heat & pressure.

I asked a guy in church who is in the oil business and asked him, “If oil is basically dinosaur sh*t and old plant life, are there ever any bits & pieces that come up that actually show this? He couldn’t really answer the question.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

But it made such a good company logo.

[Brilliant]

Even if it were true, it’s not being created fast enough to satisfy our appetite for oil.

[DManA]

Humans have been transmogrifying substances into oil for generations. Why is it so hard to believe nature is doing the same thing?

[Obadiah]

I have long held that oil is a self-generating renewable resource. I have read articles from decades ago which noted that once dry wells became replenished, albeit slowly.

The radical left greens lie for the purpose of trying to amass government power over others and to control our lives, i.e., enslave us.

[Sacajaweau]

While it is occuring if course, it is the rate....and the where....that we don't know.

Be careful you don't trap yourself in an "endangered species" situation.

Take trees for example...We now take one and plant 3....

If we take x barrels but only 1/2x is "renewing" at the same time, we are indeed in an "endangered species" situation.

Don't give them any ideas.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

We have a lot of uses for petroleum. How great to think it it’s renewable, like trees.

[Carry_Okie]

I've known this since soon after the Russian project yielded its data. We should reject and refute the term "fossil fuels" for "petrochemical fuels" in any energy discussion not specifically about coal.

Never let the left control the language of debate.

[ScottfromNJ]

Ping

[SunkenCiv]

Thomas Gold keyword:

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• Methane Bubbling to Arctic Ocean Surface in Giant Plumes
• NASA Finds Hydrocarbons on Saturn's Moon Hyperion
• 'Worms from hell' unearth possibilities for extraterrestrial life
• Everything you've heard about fossil fuels may be wrong
• Scientists plan to drill all the way down to the Earth's mantle
• Hydrocarbons in the deep earth - (Renewable? Maybe..National Academy of Science weights in)
• Hydrocarbons Deep Within Earth: New Computational Study Reveals How
• Hydrocarbons Could Form Deep In the Earth From Methane, Not Animal Remains
• Hydrocarbons in the deep earth (abiogenic)
• Bacteria devoured methane gas from gulf oil spill, scientists say
• Life is found in deepest layer of Earth's crust
• Study: Petroleum-eating microbes significantly reduced gulf oil plume ( Deepwater Horizon oilspill )
• New microbe discovered eating oil spill in Gulf
• Hydrocarbons In The Deep Earth?
• WHOI scientists find ancient asphalt domes off California coast (Maltenes?)
• Debunking the Myth of Peak Oil - Why the Age of Cheap Oil is Far From Over
• Hidden Gas Source Could Speed Global Warming
• New research rejects 80-year theory of 'primordial soup' as the origin of life
• Much of the early methane rise can be attributed to the spreading of northern peatlands
• Abiotic Synthesis Of Methane: New Evidence Supports 19th-Century Idea On Formation Of Oil
• Scientists Find Black Gold Amidst Overlooked Data
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• Revolutionary discovery means world may not run out of crude
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• Methane-derived hydrocarbons produced under upper-mantle conditions
• Fossil fuel: Now without the fossils-Just dig deeper, say boffins
• A Seismic Shift In Understanding How The Earth Got Its Gas
• Can Hydrocarbons Form in the Mantle Without Organic Matter?
• New research shows how oil gets stuck underground (Denmark)
• Methane-producing mineral discovered on Mars
• Half Of The Oil In The Ocean Bubbles Up Naturally From Seafloor
• Life found on Mars?
• BBC Audio: Dyson and Clarke (archive of BBC interviews with Freeman Dyson,Arthur C. Clarke & more!)
• Plumes of methane identified on Mars - Finding could influence choice of landing site for Mars...
• One is the loneliest number for mine-dwelling bacterium
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• Meet the Intraterrestrials
• Scientists Document Bustling Community Far Below Ocean Floor
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• Titan Has More Oil Than Earth
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• Titan's surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth
• BLACK-GOLD BLUES Discovery backs theory oil not 'fossil fuel'
• Deep-ocean vents are a source of oil and gas (evidence of abiogenic hydrocarbons)
• Lost City pumps life-essential chemicals at rates unseen at typical black smokers
• Shedding light on deep-sea thermal vents
• Oil-eating bacteria make light work of heavy fuel
• Massive deep-water oil find in Brazil challenges technology
• Rebel with a Cause: The Optimistic Scientist
• The Origins of Peak Oil Doomerism
• If hydrocarbons are renewable- then is "Peak Oil" a fraud?
• CNBC Live: Earth Oil Supplies 3x Previous Estimates
• Prospecting for Oil? Look In an Asteroid Crater
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• Time Before Time [speculative cosmology]
• Gas escaping from ocean floor may drive global warming
• Oil Is Well: The Shortage Is A Myth, And Not A New One
• Does Deep Earth Host Untapped Fuel?
• UC Riverside Researchers Identify Clay as Major Contributor to Oxygen that Enabled Early Animal Life
• Perspective: India's next big business? (Oil)
• 'Fossil fuel' theory takes hit with NASA finding
• At 30,000 feet down, where were the dinosaurs?
• Shaped from clay [origin of life]
• Methane on Mars: the plot thickens
• LINK LISTING - Space Propulsion Techniques and Technologies
• Hydrogen Production Method Could Bolster Fuel Supplies
• Fossil Fuels Made without Fossils
• About Coal: America's most abundant energy resource
• Abiotic Theory of Oil Formation
• Anything into Oil(solution to dependence on foregn oil?)
• Oil Without End?
• Early Water on Earth
• Research Finds Life 1000 Feet Beneath Ocean Floor
• Supplies of oil may be inexhaustible
• Oil Fields' Free Refill - More oil than we thought (maybe)
• The world has more oil not less
• Scientist stirs the cauldron: oil, he says, is renewable
• Oil Czar and ally

[Figment]

, it’s not being created fast enough to satisfy our appetite for oil.

Got a reliable source for that?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Did I need to add a sarcasm tag?

[Brilliant]

“Got a reliable source for that?”

Yes. Just look at the price at your local gas station.

[muir_redwoods]

I wonder what the math would show if someone were to covert all of the oil and gas we have ever used to its caloric equivalent and then figured out how much dinosaur meat that equals. It seem impossible to me that enough of this meat found its way into collections miles deep to be converted into hydrocarbons by a (to me at least) murky process that somehow left no hint of bone or tooth in the mess that has produced billions of barrels of oil and cubic feel of gas.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Did I need to add a sarcasm tag?

Not for me!! We're on the same page!

[marsh2]

Oh non..the peak oil and deep ecology set will be devastated