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Oil – Where did it come from?
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| 2/18/2017
| David Middleton
Posted on 02/19/2017 1:38:04 PM PST by rktman
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To: x1stcav
I believe you're referring to the theory of "abiogenesis," developed and championed by
Thomas Gold.
His drilling project is described at the link, and elsewhere on the internet.
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posted on
02/19/2017 2:07:23 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Liberals think in propaganda)
To: rktman
I kinda sped read thru this and shook my head a few times...
I don’t even know anything on the issue but if I had to throw out a hypothesis it would be this... Water... just plain water leaking down into the earths crust picking up various minerals along the way with elements like sulfur and others as well as core gases, being cooked under pressure is a possibility. I never believed it was organic.
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posted on
02/19/2017 2:11:10 PM PST
by
sit-rep
To: rktman
Great article! Just skimming through it it answered every question I ever had about organic vs. abiogenic oil.
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posted on
02/19/2017 2:20:18 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Winning. Winning winning winning every day!!!)
To: x1stcav
I have heard ever since I was a kid back in the 50s that we were going to run out of oil.
Before the first U.S. oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 1859, petroleum supplies were limited to crude oil that oozed to the surface.
In 1855, an advertisement for Kiers Rock Oil advised consumers to hurry, before this wonderful product is depleted from Natures laboratory."
In 1874, the state geologist of Pennsylvania, the nations leading oil- producing state, estimated that only enough U.S. oil remained to keep the nations kerosene lamps burning for four years.
In May 1920, the U.S. Geological Survey announced that the worlds total endowment of oil amounted to 60 billion barrels.
In 1950, geologists estimated the worlds total oil endowment at around 600 billion barrels.
From 1970 through today, their estimates increased to between 1,500 and 2,000 billion barrels.
http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/bg159.pdf
So, we've been running out of oil for almost 150 years.
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posted on
02/19/2017 2:20:38 PM PST
by
Colinsky
To: GraceG
Let’s let the libs and enviros know that coal is bio. Then they will be all for it.
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posted on
02/19/2017 2:21:19 PM PST
by
taterjay
To: teeman8r
Yes, use it or it will be like the perceived sea level rise. We will be doomed.
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posted on
02/19/2017 2:22:51 PM PST
by
taterjay
To: Colinsky
Paul Harvey had a radio program on this subject years ago. Initially that nearly every 5 years some expert has emphatically stated that oil was going to runout.
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posted on
02/19/2017 2:29:52 PM PST
by
Parmy
(II don't know how to past the images.)
To: snarkpup; All
2) oil companies, who fear that prices will drop if people believe the supply is unlimited.
That does not make any sense. Why would prices drop if people believe the supply is unlimited?
People would just use more oil, increasing demand, and prices would go up.
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posted on
02/19/2017 2:36:42 PM PST
by
marktwain
(We wanted to tell our side of the story. We hope by us telling our story...)
To: rktman
[[Oil Where did it come from?]]
Coconuts-
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posted on
02/19/2017 2:48:19 PM PST
by
Bob434
To: refermech
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posted on
02/19/2017 2:50:58 PM PST
by
Salamander
(We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
To: rktman
I know nothing about how GOD created oil, but I think it's from INTENSE PRESSURE on rocks and sand over millions of years.
It doesn't make sense to think it's from dead animals and plants.......never bought into "Fossil" fuels.
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posted on
02/19/2017 2:51:42 PM PST
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Steely Tom
I wasn’t referring to him as my recollection of some of the hypotheses goes back to the late 60’s. I was a Geography/Geology/Geomorphology student at UCLA. I left in ‘67 to go into the Army and there was already quite a buzz going about this new theory.
Then, maybe the old data-bank is getting a little unstable and I might have conflated bit and pieces..
You cannot imagine the fun I had over the years debunking leftards about running out of everything. First of all, to a parson, they are abysmally stupid. Secondly, most of them have never gotten their hand dirty and so don’t know what hard, dirty work mining or working in a slaughter house is. Thirdly, they are in no hurry to educate themselves. So, they’re easy pickings.
Thanks for the post. It added to my somewhat dated knowledge.
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posted on
02/19/2017 2:55:42 PM PST
by
x1stcav
(Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
To: GraceG
Millions of tons of organic matter is subducted at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean every week. It goes some where.
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posted on
02/19/2017 2:55:51 PM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
("It's a war against humanity!" Donald J. Trump)
To: rktman
Algae, diatoms, bacteria, fungi, cocolithophores, krill, fish, etc., all make up an incredible amount of biomass in the oceans. Where does all this biomass end up? Take a guess.
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posted on
02/19/2017 3:02:18 PM PST
by
Fungi
(Every breath, another five thousand fungal spores enter your body. All five thousand will be named.)
To: refermech
I knew that’s why I had my eye on a Challenger Scat Pack...to do the Lord’s work.
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posted on
02/19/2017 3:05:11 PM PST
by
Rinnwald
To: Colinsky
It’s much more likely that we’ll have peak oil prices than peak oil.
In fact we may have already had peak oil prices.
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posted on
02/19/2017 3:10:36 PM PST
by
aquila48
To: rktman
Nuclear and geothermal energy, in addiction to that which bubbles up from below, may serve well. Solar can be refined and seems to be as consistent in terms of energy as anything known throughout the ages. There may also be an undiscovered source of energy. Once we find it and make use of it, how will will we use it, and will that use be in accord with what is good and right? We are stewards of God’s creation.
To: rktman
Oil Where did it come from?.....Easy. Titusville, PA. I always tell visitors “ This is where all the crap in the world, today, came from. Poor old Edwin didn’t realize the shitstorm he released.
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posted on
02/19/2017 3:16:55 PM PST
by
Safetgiver
(Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: DoughtyOne
I sometimes consider if oil has a purpose we are unaware of, and if its depletion might not have unexpected consequences.I once heard a wild theory in the late 60s/early 70s that said oil was nature's seismic lubricant - allowing the continental plates to slip past each other with minimum friction.
If we deplete all the oil, the plates will grind on each other, seize up and we'll all die in increasingly violent earthquakes.
Yeah, I know, but it sounded good to West Coast pothead enviromentalists. Truth is secondary...
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posted on
02/19/2017 3:16:55 PM PST
by
ZOOKER
(Until further notice the /s is implied...)
To: rktman
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posted on
02/19/2017 3:17:17 PM PST
by
coon2000
(Give me Liberty or give me death)
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