While the production method of crude oil in the earth hasn’t stopped, it doesn’t produce oil anywhere near as fast as we use it today.
If the earth was producing crude oil at the rate we use it today, the crude oil could cover the whole earth six miles deep.
Well, I was referring to “Peak Oil” in the context of “Peak Oil” right now.
There’s been this weird FR infatuation with abiogenic oil, driven by:
1) The strange belief that mainstream scientists think oil ACTUALLY comes from dinosaurs (which they have never believed or argued)
2) Lack of understanding that oil actually comes from fossil plankton from lakes and shallow oceans
3) A bunch of idiotic articles from Jerome Corsi on Wing Nut Daily a few years back
4) Basic geological ignorance
5) A lack of understanding that real petroleum geologists don’t take abiogenic oil theories seriously, and all the oil they find, including shale oil that they find and frack, has been discovered on the assumption that oil is NOT abiogenic, but fossil.
What had happened is that people saw abiogenic oil as an argument against “Peak oil” in the 2010-2020 period, not understanding that you could BOTH oppose the idea that we are about to hit “peak oil” in the 2010-2020 time period, and also believe that petroleum is a fossil fuel, and that there were huge fossile reserves accessible with new technology.