“As we all know but are sometimes reluctant to contemplate, oil is a finite, non-renewable resource. “
we don’t all know this, in fact, it has never been proven. it is only conjecture. there have been many articles posted on this forum that theorize that oil is being continuously produced in the earth’s crust.
that oil is a product of ancient animal or plant life has never been proven.
this is right up there with Global Warming in theories that have been repeated so many times they have become a mantra.
Nonsensical articles selling a fantasy written by people without the vaguest understanding of geology, posted by people that literally believe the theory they're attacking is that "oil comes from dinosaurs." Nobody is finding any oil based on the idea it's being continually produced in the crust - it's being found in or near sedimentary basins that used to be ancient shallow seas or lakes.
that oil is a product of ancient animal or plant life has never been proven.
Something tells me your claim is not based on a careful review of the literature of petroleum geology.
Oil matches the composition of the microscopic diatoms and algae it comes from. Repeatedly demonstrated.
Petroleum: To Be or Not to Be Abiogenic
"Present-day analysis of petroleum systems, when performed integrated with direct geochemistry, remote sense and high resolution geochemistry technology (HRGT), can provide irrefutable proof that 99.99999% of all the oil and gas accumulations found up to know in the planet earth have a biologic origin. The technologies can be so accurate and useful that they can predict pre-drilling insights regarding the quality and potential volumes of hydrocarbons to be found, including deep gas reservoirs, oil versus gas prone areas, degree of oil and gas cracking and of mixture of hydrocarbons derived from different sources, from different petroleum systems."
"With the advances of analytical chemistry, around the fifties, geochemical evidence start to suggest, and latter proved that oils are related to biological precursors (Forsman and Hunt, 1958; Eglinton and Calvin, 1967 and Tissot, 1969). In the late seventies Albrecht, Seifert, Moldowan and Maxwell performed numbered studies that definitively proved the relationship between hydrocarbons and their putative biological precursor, burying the abiogenic hypothesis forever."
"The application of high resolution biomarker technologies using GC-MS, GC-MS-MS, Diamondoids, CSIA-B and CSIA-D methods, integrated with detailed geological and paleontology cal characterization, provide scientific evidence that that oils can be attributed to organic-rich sedimentary rocks of specific geological age and depositional environments."
This explains all the hydrocarbons on Europa. See, all the dinasaurs who died eons ago, on Europa, they created the finite amount of hydrocarbons present on that moon.
So is the earth and the sun; in fact, most of their usable 9 billion years have already been mindlessly and greedily consumed.. Sure, nobody seems to worry much about it because we all know that there's plenty of earth and sun left for us to enjoy while we leisurely find replacements; but I say the same applies to oil.
Unfortunately, the abiotic response singularly fails, in all cases, to explain why 60% + of the worlds oil fields are in depletion.
I don’t have a problem with whether it’s biotic or abiotic - whatever!
Truth is we are approaching crunch time when, however it is produced, we are not getting it out of the ground fast enough.