Regarding the story that oil is fossil in nature and has formed over
million of years from trees and dinosaurs that we are now depleting
in 1
century,
here is some technical reasoning of another explanation of how oil is
formed. Much more credible.
The key word is abiotic fuel. A search in google reveals many further
links and info on that.

Chemists will likely appreciate the attached article most.
It does not look like that the dinosaurs had anything to do with it.
How would they get down there anyway as people have questioned before.
Looks like we will never run out of oil.

Rolf Pfeiffer

How much oil would you get if you highly compressed and heated a dead
alligator?
I don't really want to start an argument on this subject so please, if
you have any
scholarly information that supports or specifically counters this
theory, I
would like to know about it. I'll post the resultant pdf to the web
site as
interesting information in the same place as this one will be posted.
There are lots of questions out there on this subject. For example;
Why oil shale?
Why tar sands in some places and not others? Why is oil found one or
two miles
down?

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BTW here is a method of separating scientific BS from truth.
If a person proposes a theory on something and devises an
experiment or apparatus to prove that theory then that person
deserves respect. Anybody can build an identical apparatus and run
the same experiment proving or dis proving the proposed theory. That
is the
way science works and advances. Anybody merely attacking the messenger
without
reproducing the experiment regardless of their qualifications
should be ignored.


Paul Lamar

Another link to the scholarly information and sources of the two
articles you and I have posted. I am only the messenger.
http://www.gasresources.net/index.htm

I am sure the western oil companies know all that.
It is just the public information and belief and the University
teachings are still based on the old findings of 1757 of the Russian
Geologist Mikhail Lomonossov who believed the oil is biological in
nature.

Considering the complexity of the various hydrocarbons, it is much
more
plausible that it is formed under high pressure and temperature as are
the conditions in the lower earth mantle. Good question, how much oil
would a dead alligator produce, likely none.

Rolf Pfeiffer

An interesting discussion.

Jerry Hey


I think what happens is that marine life dies and sinks into the deep ocean.
The hydrocarbons in these critters in the very deep ocean percolate through
the layers of the earth's crust and under heat and pressure they polymerize
to turn into crude oil, or with less time migrate into gas pockets.  There
is continual seepage in many off-shore areas like Santa Barbara which tells
me that oil is moving into those those underground pools and building
pressure.  I don't have any proof but it makes sense to me.  There are
companies out there that are taking organic material like chicken offal and
converting it into diesel with heat and pressure.

Steve Brazil