[joe fonebone]

I have been saying this for decades now.... “fossil fuels” is nothing but a myth... want proof, bury a dead animal in your yard, return in a year and dig it up... you have bones and dirt, not oil.... millions of years will not turn bone or dirt to oil.... ashes to ashes, dust to dust (not ashes to oil, dust to oil).. another econazi myth..

[PGR88]

Also, isn’t Titan, one of the moons of Saturn, covered in lakes of frozen natural gas? Sure as heck aren’t any dead dinos there.

Humans have only scratched the surface of what’s in the earth. We have little idea what’s actually down there. The deepest bore-hole of any kind was drilled by the Russians - about 40,000 feet, I believe.

that’s not even a pin-prick, given the size of the Earth.

[exit82]

Agree. I have said for years that there could not possibly be enough plants and dinosaurs that died to create the billions and billions of oil that exist today.

Every day we consume 19 million barrels of oil, every single day!

How many brontosauruses is that?

[trailhkr1]

I have been saying this for decades now.... “fossil fuels” is nothing but a myth... want proof, bury a dead animal in your yard, return in a year and dig it up... you have bones and dirt, not oil.... millions of years will not turn bone or dirt to oil.... ashes to ashes, dust to dust (not ashes to oil, dust to oil).. another econazi myth

Wow, don't even know where to start. Oil is the result of extreme pressure, heat and lot's of time.

Srs. you need to take a basic education courses, not at the college level but 5-6 grade level. Your response is embarrassing to say the least

[GonzoGOP]

want proof, bury a dead animal in your yard, return in a year and dig it up.

You have obviously never been to a peat bog. You bury something in that low oxygen/high acidity soil and you get something very close to coal in only a few years. I can't vouch for oil, but it isn't a stretch to get from old dense peat to lignite coal. Heck if you pull the layers of lignite apart carefully it still has the plant imprints in it. In addition the process of decay into peat creates lots of methane as a byproduct.

So it isn't hard to see that coal and methane can be formed biologically. The question is only if that is the only way and the evidence appears to be no.

[HamiltonJay]

Fossil fuels are not a myth, Coal is without question a fossil fuel, anyone who’s ever mined it or found it can tell you its clearly made from organic materials crushed under pressure for extended periods of time, the evidence is visible within the coal strata itself.

And in fact, COAL is abundant, but it is finite.

Oil on the other hand, I agree, oil can be produced without the need for dead plants/animals being compressed and buried for extended periods of time.

[crusty old prospector]

Your dog was consumed by worms and other burrowers. Just as on land, there are burrowers and terd rustlers in the oceans. They mainly live in oxygenated waters. Petroleum source rocks occur in anoxic waters where there is not apply oxygen to support such life and thus organic matter can be preserved without being consumed. Concentrate the organic material, bury it and heat it, then you have expulsion. Migrate it to a trap and you have a field. Most oil and gas misses a trap and comes to the surface.