[rottndog]

petroleum produced by geology, not by biology.

Makes sense to me, considering how much petroleum we are using, the rate at which our use is increasing, and the fact that oil reserves are increasing at a greater rate. It does not seem logical to me that a biological process that takes so long could produce so much. How much biological material actually reaches the depths of the Earth required to produce petroleum? It doesn't make sense to me.

Wouldn't it be nice to retire the term "fossil fuel"? Then we could say to the environazis "Look, we aren't using fossil fuels anymore! We're only consuming the milk of Geia!"

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

This is precisely why the "Global warming" (now, the bidirectional "climate change") story was necessary. If people thought that petroleum resources weren't running out -- they might (gasp) use them! This use could lead to (the horrors) prosperity -- without guilt!!! We can't have that.

{we satarize -- you decide.}

[arthurus]

Coal is legitimately Fossil Fuel. Oil and gas appear not to be.

[Hardastarboard]

Then we could say to the environazis "Look, we aren't using fossil fuels anymore! We're only consuming the milk of Geia!"

They'll burn you at the stake for such heresy. They'll still say you're an infidel defiling their beautiful mother, sucking the very life out of her. They are enviro Nazis, after all.

[Go Gordon]

It does not seem logical to me that a biological process that takes so long could produce so much.

I have yet to have anyone explain to me how many dinasaurs died beneath the Bearing sea in order to produce all that oil, miles beneath the surface of the ocean - in a place no historian has ever postulated was ever dry land.

[Obadiah]

Exactly. You mean to tell me that all of the oil the world has burned since the turn of the 20th century was from some poulation of dinosaurs and some plants? Pffft.