I have been saying for 20 YEARS that oil comes from COMPRESSION of rocks. I don’t know if I’m right but I NEVER bought “dinosaurs and such” crap.
Who’d a thunk the ancients got it right when they named it “petroleum”— petra-rock, oleo-oil.
Actually, the planet makes oil from more than one process, but all othese processes come down to hydrocarbons. Living things are made of hydrocarbons, so when living things are broken down via pressure and temperature, wah lah, hydrocarbons for pools of oil! BActeria, which are made of hydrocarbons, eat rocks and when they in turn are broken down via heat and pressure, wah lah, more oil in the pools!
Since we are pulling oil from 7 miles below where any trace of dead dinosaur may have once died and decayed, we know the origin of oil isn’t from dinosaurs.
Full stop.
Bottom line: We don’t know how oil was formed.
Add that to the mountain of stuff we thought we knew about and didn’t. Salt’s good for you now as well, if you didn’t get the memo. Scientist said so.
Credibility is getting thinner every day for modern science.