Oil is not a fossil fuel?

Question

Has anyone else heard this and what are your thoughts?

It seems to me that this could make the world a better place.

Please feel free to google this and see what you come up with. Its a semi-recent study.

Here is the website I found.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59991

Answer 1

It's certainly not from old dinosaurs.

I love this theory.  I've heard before that old drilling sites once thought tapped are coming back.

It's always been clear to me that there's more oil than the liberals have said.

Answer 2

oh thank God...crisis averted

Answer 3

Yep, fossil fuel.

i would never trust intelligent that came out of a jello mold brain.

Answer 4

Oil may be or may not be a fossil fuel. Burning it has much the same result in any event... first we no longer have it, second we have the CO2 in the atmosphere.

The question left is, if it is not a fossil fuel might the  supply be almost inexhaustible ?

Just when some people had been hoping we would run out of fossil fuel to avoid using up all of our oxygen burning it we may have to deal with an inexhaustible supply... that would make it imperative we stop burning it?

When we see large volumes of CO2 from volcanoes we have to think that one really big volcano might send up enough carbon to extinguish all animal life by using up the oxygen.

And if there is carbon down there, and hydrogen, oil might be like rock a naturally occurring combination.

Answer 5

Oil is a fossil fuel. Here's a link to the Department of Energy:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/...

Answer 6

methane is the most simple hydrocarbon CH4 and can be made  by chemical processes, as presumably it is on titan, and it was in the earth's early atmosphere. most of it on earth more recently  is made by  action of bacteria (yes, even inside the gut).

i have heard of 'new' gas deposits produced by bacteria 'eating' oil shale underground, but that's really not the same as what you are suggesting!

Answer 7

Methane on earth is most often made by the decay of plant matter in an environment without any oxygen present.  

   Some company tried to prove that oil came from some place deep in the earth and had nothing to do with decaying life.   They drilled a very deep hole in an area where there would be no chance of any oil they found coming from a decaying life form.   They found enough hydrocarbons to maybe make as much fire as a match for the millions they spent drilling.    So, yes, not all hydrocarbons are from plants or animals but most of them on earth are.

Answer 8

It is referred to a fossil fuel for conveinence because no one really knows where oil comes from but it is a theory that it derived from organic material under pressure below the mantal.

Answer 9

Oil doesn't come from dinosaurs, it comes from decayed plants.  So there were plants on Saturn, which is equally interesting.