One great thing about FR is that it's so large we have actual members who have actual experience in real life; we do have a lot of petroleum engineers, oil field workers, etc.
A lot of the people whose entire knowledge of petroleum consists of spending 5 minutes reading a couple crappy articles like this WND one then go around spouting off about all the oil fields around the world that are mysteriously refilling...
And I've seen our FReeper oil workers bring them back to reality on what's really happening. It's simply not true. There are a tiny handful of small fields that seem to have refilled from other nearby fields, and it's very, very rare.
It's very tough to argue with people who simply believe what they want to believe, though. And who actually literally think the standard theory says petroleum comes from "dinosaurs."
"It's very tough to argue with people who simply believe what they want to believe, though. And who actually literally think the standard theory says petroleum comes from "dinosaurs."
I am not a petroleum engineer nor a oil field worker.
If it is true per Soviet Russia's research that the source for oil in not fossil, then we have a whole new ball of wax.
Needless to say, the oily wealthy (e.g., Rochefellers, et al) from the petroleum industry would discredit this theory about a self-replenishing abiotic source. Would this alter the emissions factor?
No matter what, I don't believe that cows and cattle, and roaming Buffalo burp and fart enough to affect "global warming." However, the foul emissions from politicians definitely have an adverse affect on the earth's well being.