Half Of The Oil In The Ocean Bubbles Up Naturally From Seafloor

science ^ | Feb. 20, 2009 | ScienceDaily

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

also could someone explain how free stuff is traded for 150 dollars a barrel

Sand is "free" too.

This is made out of sand. It is quite costly.

[chiller]

Fossil fuels my ass. There weren’t THAT many decompsed dinos or trees. The earth’s core could be the only source for so much oil

Next to inexhaustible.

[Flavius]

Your crazy look at all the boys above you, spitting out the same oil mantra

off course there is trillions of cubic feet of natural gas
all from dinosaurs as well

jokes all of them

[SunkenCiv]

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[aruanan]

About half of the oil in the ocean bubbles up naturally from the seafloor, with Earth giving it up freely like it was of no value.

Drill for it and use it or let it go to waste. The same goes for uranium. It's decaying away. It can decay away in the ground doing no one any good or it can be used to generate power.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Fred Nerks]

About half of the oil in the ocean bubbles up naturally from the seafloor, with Earth giving it up freely like it was of no value...

Bubble of oil oozing from the ocean floor. (Credit: David Valentine)

ScienceDaily (Oct. 1, 2008) — Thousands of feet below the bottom of the sea, off the shores of Santa Barbara, single-celled organisms are busy feasting on oil.

[thackney]

I believe your chart includes spills of refined products by boaters and so forth.

Yes it does. It includes spills on land at a gas station filling station that eventually get washed into the water if not captured. It is a total source of all petroleum that ends up in the waters.

[thackney]

There weren’t THAT many decompsed dinos or trees. The earth’s core could be the only source for so much oil

The oceans get a couple centimeters of sediment per thousand years from organic matter, most of it simple like algae or plankton.

Multiply that average (some places as low as 0.1 millimeter per thousand years, along the continental margins in line with a river outlet may see a meter per year) times 400 million years or more and you get a lot of organic accumilation.