LoP Guest  Wrote:

The whole brainwashing campaign of "Peak Oil" and the notion that oil is a "fossil fuel" is yet another one of those massive con jobs. The following story will introduce you to the theory that oil is an abiotic process, deep in the earth where, under heat and pressure condense into hydrocarbons. No organic process is involved and the earth is constantly producing these hydrocarbons.

abiotic theory is unproven.

and even if true,
there is still some unknown bottleneck of production.

what is proven is that the known oil reserves have
peaked in production.

JT nli  Wrote:

--what about all that abiotic oil, man that stuff is as hard to find and prove as Osama Been Hidden. Is it from coal, magma, heat and pressure, how does it change from minerals to hydrocarbons? If it is from coal, that would also imply biotic origins.
I have been waiting for some clear evidence, experimental evidence, chemical equation evidence, or any other kind. Actually hoping in a way. But this has been an internet myth for years.
If true it would mean there are enough petroleum resources to transition to clean energy sources over the next decade (if there was a will to do this by those in power - ha). It will require fossil or abiotic fuels to create windmills, solar panels, geothermal plants, thorium reactors, wave generators, or whatever other means we adopt to supply our power needs. These things are all created with fossil/abiotic fuels.

Excellent comments, colleague! Unfortunately, I believe they will fall on deaf ears, primarily because they conflict with the standard conspiracy mind-set which (in this forum, at least) trumps scientific knowledge and critical thinking.

Dear Abiotic Believers:

Even if the abiogenic theory of oil were true, unfortunately we would use it faster than the planet Earth could produce it.

So for all intents and purposes, abiotic oil is completely useless for human society.

LoP Guest  Wrote:

Dear Abiotic Believers:

Even if the abiogenic theory of oil were true, unfortunately we would use it faster than the planet Earth could produce it.

So for all intents and purposes, abiotic oil is completely useless for human society.

Cheap fallacy labeling us "believers."

And if oil is abiotic, then it is very useful to humanity, you have used it.

Geochemist Says Oil FieldsMay Be Refilled Naturally

By MALCOLM W. BROWNE
Published: September 26, 1995

COULD it be that many of the world's oil fields are refilling themselves at nearly the same rate they are being drained by an energy-hungry world?

A geochemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts says she believes that hitherto undetected gas and oil reservoirs lying at very great depths within the earth's crust could stave off the inevitable oil depletion much longer than many experts have estimated.

The scientist, Dr. Jean K. Whelan, whose research is part of a $2 million Department of Energy exploration program in the Gulf of Mexico south of New Orleans, has found evidence of differences in the composition of oil over periods of time as it flows from greater to shallower depths. By gauging degradative chemical changes in the oil resulting from action by oil-eating bacteria, she infers that oil is moving in quite rapid spurts from great depths to reservoirs closer to the surface.

Skeptics of Dr. Whelan's hypothesis acknowledge that oil is almost certainly flowing into certain reservoirs from somewhere, but say her explanation remains to be proved, as does the exact extent of the phenomenon...

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/26/scienc...all&src=pm

Luvapottamus  Wrote:

Geochemist Says Oil FieldsMay Be Refilled Naturally

By MALCOLM W. BROWNE
Published: September 26, 1995

COULD it be that many of the world's oil fields are refilling themselves at nearly the same rate they are being drained by an energy-hungry world?

A geochemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts says she believes that hitherto undetected gas and oil reservoirs lying at very great depths within the earth's crust could stave off the inevitable oil depletion much longer than many experts have estimated.

The scientist, Dr. Jean K. Whelan, whose research is part of a $2 million Department of Energy exploration program in the Gulf of Mexico south of New Orleans, has found evidence of differences in the composition of oil over periods of time as it flows from greater to shallower depths. By gauging degradative chemical changes in the oil resulting from action by oil-eating bacteria, she infers that oil is moving in quite rapid spurts from great depths to reservoirs closer to the surface.

Skeptics of Dr. Whelan's hypothesis acknowledge that oil is almost certainly flowing into certain reservoirs from somewhere, but say her explanation remains to be proved, as does the exact extent of the phenomenon...

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/26/scienc...all&src=pm

Way to link to an article from 1995. Go and research the latest information. Oil wells do not regenerate quickly enough for our oil-hungry world, especially when you factor in China and India.

Seriously, some of you people are incredibly igorant. Do you even bother reading about BOTH sides of an argument? I doubt it.

Remember the good ole days??

If hydrocarbons, esters, ethers are present on another planet, does that automatically make abiotic oil being produced below earth's surface a fact? Maybe you could explain that further.