So, I Guess We're Not Running Out Of Oil After All

Townhall.com ^ | December 29, 2015 | Matt Vespa

[so_real]

Yeah, I thought the "science was settled" on peak oil. Scientists ... as lousier today than weathermen ever were.

[Oberon]

When a subduction fault pushes carbonate-bearing rock down into the mantle, you’ve got all the ingredients you need to make petroleum. Don’t know why it’s any big mystery.

[SandRat]

We knew that back when Jimmy Carter and Jane Fonda opened their Mouths to tell that lie.

[Fledermaus]

We will never run out of oil. It’s a product created by the planet.

[Starstruck]

Oldtimer here too. I remember those "gas wars". I don't remember it going to 12.9 but I do remember it at about 18.9

I worked at a cut rate station back in late 65 early 66. 18.9 was the going rate at APCO in KCMO at that time. We would occasionally get in a war with a Hudson station up the street and the price would come down for a few days. My parents home at the time had at least 8 service stations within a mile. Today there are 2.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I'll bite. You have calcium carbonate, high temperature - and what else? The CaCO₃ breaks down at high temperature into liquid CaO and gaseous CO₂

What in that brew makes a hydrocarbon?

[kaktuskid]

The use of Oil has saved more whales than Greenpeace

[Oberon]

The CaCO3 has water in it too... hence available hydrogen.