What if oil is not a fossil fuel? There is a hypothesis that hydrocarbons are produced inside a planet's mantle.
https://postcanadian.com/ambiogenic-petroleum-fossil-fuels-science/
There is a little known scientific hypothesis that challenges our conventional wisdom about oil and gas. The abiogenic petroleum origin hypothesis proposes that petroleum was formed from deep carbon deposits, rather than from the decomposition of organic matter. ...
... If the abiogenic petroleum origin hypothesis were true, it would imply that petroleum resources like oil are not finite or derived from ancient biological matter, but instead are continuously generated through geochemical processes deep within the Earth's mantle and crust. This would have several implications for the abundance of oil and natural gas on Earth. ...
Article lists names of a few geologists and professors who have been bandying the hypothesis about. It notes that that "peak oil theory" has been used to drive up prices and I would add, of course, that it is another driver (a non-environmentally-linked one) for Net Zero nonsense.
Mind you, even if the earth could produce petroleum indefinitely, we may still be limited in our use of it somewhat depending on how fast petroleum percolates up through the rock into the voids from which we draw it out; we may be drawing it up faster than it can re-form even if this theory is true.
It might be worthwhile to revisite the oldest (and presumaby empty) oil wells and see if they are re-filling at all--these date from the mid-1800s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Oil_Well
At any rate, it's interesting and worth exploring as it adds another bit of intrigue to the whole de-carbonization movement.
Some wells are reported to fill back up. It's probably true; a self-lubricating living planet. It's going to need a little grease to keep the crust from fracturing and things like that, right? Might as well make it itself.
Yup, oil isn't made of dead dinosaurs and plants. It's created as part of a natural process within the earth. There is no such thing as peak oil.
Just ask the tards how many dinosaurs it takes to create enough oil to fill the permean basin and how did those billions of dinosaurs end up a mile under ground.
The dinosaur theory is a bit of an exaggeration. In reality, geologists theorize that plant and dead animal and microorganisms sediments of both kept covering the bottoms of ancient seas for tens or hundreds of millions of years, compacting and interlaced with inorganic sediments that all became rock (sandstones or carbonates) and were further buried with plate tectonics and folding submerging the layers.
That is not to say that the inorganic theory is not the correct one. Just don't attribute it all to T-Rex.
The latest research shows that all of the chemicals needed to produce oil are not created via the breakdown of the plant and animal material so the creation of oil has to be a byproduct of processes occurring within the earth.
Yupp! The term fossil fuel was coined to insinuate that its scarce when it is not.
From EAST TEXAS, born & raised, and I can tell you that the drillers cap a well and wait a period of time in years or so and come back and uncap it...THERE'S OIL IN THAT THERE WELL!!!!!!!!!
OIL is a RENEWABLE resource...besides, this country sits on more oil than Saudi Arabia!!!!...'NOUGH SAID!!!!
The Bandy tract has been had, though. Draaaaainage, my boy.
This has been known for some time now, it's called the "Abiotic Theory" of petroleum. The theory goes that petroleum is created in the Earth's mantle as a result of interactions at great depths with the molten magma of the Earth's core. The term "fossil fuels" was created in the early 1900s to sell people on the idea that organic material creates petroleum, but that process has never been replicated or fully explained.