[apillar]

I remember Rush Limbaugh talking about this years ago. It’s seems that old oil wells are filling back up from farther underground. Which could only mean that either the earth is a LOT older than scientists believe and we are only tapping the “top layer” of oil (which seems unlikely as there are other methods to measure the age of the earth), or at least a portion of the oil is being produced by a non-biological process down near the mantle and working it’s way up (which would mean that the supply of oil is essentially limitless). While this theory is certainly not mainstream, there is some evidence, not the least of which is the abundance of hydrocarbons the moons of Saturn, which certainly weren’t produced by biological means.

[GonzoGOP]

It’s seems that old oil wells are filling back up from farther underground. Which could only mean that either the earth is a LOT older than scientists believe and we are only tapping the “top layer” of oil (which seems unlikely as there are other methods to measure the age of the earth)

Or you are over a subduction zone. If the sea floor got shoved down under the continental shelf it would be easy to have layers of oil very deep. If you go to Montana, just East of Glacier National Park you can actually see where the continental shelf buckled and is laying one complete shelf on top of another. No foothills, just flat prairie and then bam! wall o rock. Impressive as heck. Especially when you consider that is just a wrinkle compared with what is going on at the Mariana Trench.

[ponygirl]

Rush had a caller within the last year who works in the energy business - can’t remember if it was nuclear or oil - but I remember him saying that recent scientific studies are now leaning towards the idea that it is a thermonuclear process happening at the earth’s core and that the by-product is oil that rises to the top.