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What If Oil and Natural Gas Are Renewable Resources? (Evidence mounting on limitless supply of oil)
American Thinker ^ | 03/18/2012 | Greg Lewis

Posted on 03/19/2012 6:58:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

President Barack Obama and his green energy confederates are determined to scare the public about a declining supply of "fossil fuels." If we accept the idea that oil is produced by the conversion of organic matter -- from plants to dinosaurs -- under extreme pressure, we must also accept the idea that there is a limited supply of oil and that we've got to do everything we can to find a replacement for fossil fuels before we run out.

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. Scientist Thomas Gold presents the decades-old theory of "abiotic" oil-creation, which supports these facts, in his book, The Deep Hot Biosphere. In it he explains that the idea of the "biotic" creation of "fossil fuels" -- that decaying organic matter is compressed into oil -- is incorrect. In fact, the earth is constantly producing new oil very deep below its surface, and in some cases the oil flows up to replenish existing oil fields thought to be exhausted.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012; abiogenic; drillheredrillnow; energy; naturalgas; obama; oil; oilandgas; renewableresources; thegreenlie; thomasgold
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To: Huebolt

And all that heat fromt he earth’s core comes for the decay of elements like Thorium, so Oil is powered by Thorium!!!

If we could harness that power somehow, somehow.....


101 posted on 03/19/2012 9:28:06 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: CSM

“I’m no scientist, but being on FR has taught me to think a bit.....That said, what if drilling a well and removing oil somehow “stimulates” the creation process and the more we use then the more is created?”

My family has been in the oil business for about 100 years and we have never seen any sign of that happening. Besides there is no link between where oil is being produced and where it is being formed.


102 posted on 03/19/2012 9:31:33 AM PDT by Okieshooter
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To: HamiltonJay

Yup: Coal is definitely fossil. Oil? ... well, I am still listening to the arguments and evidence on both sides.


103 posted on 03/19/2012 9:31:47 AM PDT by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: thackney

Thanks for the lesson. I always admit when I was wrong.


104 posted on 03/19/2012 9:40:00 AM PDT by trailhkr1
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To: Okieshooter
"My family has been in the oil business for about 100 years" 1922 Mexia, Tx, grandfather with hands in pockets, uncle at 6 years old and father at 4 yrs old. Photobucket Pictures, Images and Photos
105 posted on 03/19/2012 9:42:17 AM PDT by Okieshooter
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To: PapaBear3625

“I’m no scientist, but being on FR has taught me to think a bit....”

Ha, I should have said that being on FR has taught me to TRY to think a bit...Not necessarily correctly or anything, but at least to try.


106 posted on 03/19/2012 9:42:27 AM PDT by CSM
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To: MrB
“How are we supposed to be able to control all these people and impose our utopia on them if they have access to all the energy and mobility that they want!!!!????”

Precisely. As Machiavelli said long ago:

"When cities or provinces have been accustomed to live under a prince... they do not know how to live in freedom... and a prince can win them over with greater faculty and establish himself securely. But in republics, there is greater life...they do not and cannot cast aside the memory of their ancient liberty, so that the surest way to conquer them is to lay them waste."

There is no better description for what the wrecking crew behind 0bama aim to do - to lay us waste. None of them are fit to live in a free society. Time for a new Crusade.

107 posted on 03/19/2012 9:42:40 AM PDT by Noumenon ("I tell you, gentlemen, we have a problem on our hands." Col. Nicholson-The Bridge on the River Qwai)
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To: Okieshooter

Mexia (pronounced Muhaya if you ain’t from Texas). One of the fields that helped build Humble Oil, now known as Exxon. Not too many active wells around there now.


108 posted on 03/19/2012 9:47:55 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: SeekAndFind

We are told many Moons and Planets in our solar system have lakes of methane(natural gas).. or atmospheres (of it)..

Where did all that natural gas in liquid form come from?..
Decaying vegetable matter?.. And if natural gas why not also OIL in some form.. be present as well.. The MOONS could have oil deposits..

Note: Methane = natural gas = stuff we heat our houses with..


109 posted on 03/19/2012 9:51:52 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: crusty old prospector
"Mexia (pronounced Muhaya if you ain’t from Texas). One of the fields that helped build Humble Oil, now known as Exxon. Not too many active wells around there now." Another picture from that field with grandfather sitting down. This picture has been in Hughes publications over the years and was on a belt buckle they made in about 1980. Grandfather had just set a record drilling with a Hughes Simplex bit. Photobucket Pictures, Images and Photos
110 posted on 03/19/2012 9:57:07 AM PDT by Okieshooter
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To: crusty old prospector
Oil Fields Are Refilling... Naturally - Sometimes Rapidly

There Are More Oil Seeps Than All The Tankers On Earth By Robert Cooke


The 'Abiotic Oil' Controversy, Newsday, 04/10.2005.

Geochemist Says Oil FieldsMay Be Refilled Naturally, New York Times, Sept. 26, 1995 .

Odd Reservoir Off Louisiana Prods Oil Experts to Seek a Deeper Meaning By CHRISTOPHER COOPER, Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, April 16, 1999.

The Mystery of Eugene Island 330, Science Frontiers Online, No. 124, July-August 1999.

See also the papers on oil and gas origins by Kropotkin.
111 posted on 03/19/2012 10:10:16 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: crusty old prospector
See also the papers on oil and gas origins by Kropotkin. Here's a page with links, though some of the papers may be available for free only through a university with subscriptions (like my own, ha ha).
112 posted on 03/19/2012 10:12:11 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: PapaBear3625
Oil discoveries and new technologies have sent the peak oil estimates to the ash heap. I don't see us EVER running out, but new types of energy discoveries and new technologies will make the amount oil a moot point. E-cat for one.
113 posted on 03/19/2012 10:31:07 AM PDT by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: andyk
The public -- likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney notwithstanding -- is ready for a message that defends oil as the fuel of the future and is buttressed by growing scientific evidence. This means that there's no need for us to look beyond our shores -- our "offshores," to be precise -- to discover where our oil is coming from. It's bubbling up constantly from miles below the surface of the earth, and it's not about to run out.

This last para tells why the media wants us to select Mittens as our candidate.

114 posted on 03/19/2012 10:48:57 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: thackney
This nonsense again?

What part, exactly?

115 posted on 03/19/2012 10:55:06 AM PDT by Publius6961 (“It’s easy to make phony promises you can’t keep.” - Obama, Feb23, 2012)
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To: Publius6961

Keep reading the thread. When you reach this post, ask me again if you want.


116 posted on 03/19/2012 10:59:41 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: SeekAndFind

O.K. For argument’s sake, let’s agree that “fossil fuels” are not “fossil” in orgin, but geologic. And that there is a geologic process by which they are ‘continually’ forming.

Even then, if that thesis can be proven, then at some point we will have to discover “at what rate” (posssibly site-by-site) the “renewable” process is ocurring, because even a renewable process is not, in the short term (immediate demands) limitless. Economics works best on factual thesis not theoretical ones, so “best price” will still want to know what reserves are “known” or at least known based on accepted standards.

And, at the end of the day (what century?), it would be helpful to NOT have demand forever seeking deeper and deeper sources to the point it is no longer ‘renewable’, but being drained at the final reserves, with any new demand waiting upon the geologic process, and geologic time-scales.

At some point, diversity and flexibility of energy seems to offer more security.


117 posted on 03/19/2012 10:59:59 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: aruanan
All these papers refer to Eugene Island 330. It has been proven that the faults are leaking and the oil is coming up from below. That is how most oil migrates vertically. It is miniscule in comparison to the countless number of oil fields around the world where this phenomenon is not occuring. And oil seeps are just where these same type of leaky faults are hitting the sea floor. Here are just a few.


118 posted on 03/19/2012 11:08:29 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: faucetman

The only thing that makes these new “discoveries” viable is $100 a barrel oil. The wells are very expensive and are characterized with high decline rates. The same goes for the tar sands in Canada, i.e. Keystone XL pipeline. It doesn’t fly with $30 oil. The world is running out of “easy” oil. The bulk of it is either in unconventional reservoirs (Bakken, Eagle Ford, etc.,) in 7,000’ of water or greater (i.e. deepwater Gulf of Mexico and Brazil,)or in countries that don’t like dealing with the infidels. There is no longer a free oil lunch like our parents and grandparents.


119 posted on 03/19/2012 11:15:11 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: USCG SimTech

I like your idea,

but do you think that 0bama would hesitate about the penalty? It’s not coming from HIS stash.


120 posted on 03/19/2012 11:16:07 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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