[Libloather]

I do listen to leftist, moonbat radio at times. One sound bite from some RAT goon proclaims oil comes from dinosaur poop. POOP? Enough to provide trillions of gallons of crude? Doesn't seem likely.

My semi-educated guess - the planet manufactures oil - and always will - period.

Just who started this 'fossil' fuel rumor in the first place?

[Misterioso]

Why don’t you leave off with the headline commentary?

[Misterioso]

Semi-educated guess followed by “period.” LOL.

[endthematrix]

1757, Mikhail Lomonossov (Gawd I love the Internet)

[Sun]

Fossil fuel is just a theory.

I heard the rumor started because fossil remains happened to be mixed with oil, so that’s why some jumped to the conclusion that the oil is “fossil fuel.”

[REDWOOD99]

How did dinosaurs get at the bottom of the North Sea?

[mojito]

Fossil fuels don't derive from any dinosaur “by-product.” Petroleum and coal deposits are the remains of ancient forests that had already disappeared nearly a hundred million years before the first dinosaurs.

[truth_seeker]

Try this. It is science, and refutes your notion of inorganic origins of commercial hydrocarbon deposits.

http://www.geotimes.org/nov02/NN_oil.html

[Gondring]

So if they are claiming sample bias has resulted in an illusion of a Cretaceous boom, to what are they attributing the bias? Is it the scale of the Cretaceous dinos versus Triassic and Jurassic ones? Is it the interest in Cretaceous ones? Is it the available producing rock mass?

[Prophet in the wilderness]

If it is true what the Libs claim about fossil fuels, then “ WERE THE DNA “ i.e. Wendys commercials “ weres the beef ! “

[RoadTest]

The Tooth Fairy keeps evolving, too. And Satan Claws - excuse me - Santa Claus changed from a drab looking Nicholas to a bright red, fur trimmed hero. I think we’re all entertained by these very creative stories.

[aruanan]

(Wouldn't ALL fossil fuel contain DNA?)

No. Both coal (anthracite and bituminous) and petroleum contain very little material that is unambiguously biological in origin. The fact that they are mostly carbon is not evidence of biological origin. All living things on earth contain carbon; but it does not follow that all things on earth containing carbon came from formerly living things.

[norwaypinesavage]

"Wouldn't ALL fossil fuel contain DNA?"

It would be quite interesting to send a Martian lander type device to Saturn's moon Titan to sample the "fossil fuel" in the lakes there to determine the Dinosaur DNA.

[Vaduz]

Just who started this ‘fossil’ fuel rumor in the first place?
You see it started like this when the first mother ship arrived it sent the smaller UFO’s to plant oil seeds and thst is how it all started.

[Dog Gone]

Nobody who is educated at all thinks that oil comes from dinosaurs, much less their poop.

Nor do they think that oil is magically created from the core of the earth. Natural gas? Sure, the methane molecule can be formed from a variety of sources, some biological, and others abiotic.

But natural gas is not oil and there’s no known mechanism that would convert it to oil.

As a matter of fact, there are all kinds and grades of oil which further indicates that it has a distinctive source, not some generic abiotic origin. It’s quite local.

None of this has anything to do with dinosaurs, which was what the article was about.

[SunkenCiv]

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