Oil takes 80,000 years to develop?

Question

That's what my friend said. :|

Answer 1

Your friend is mistaken.

Oil does not take long to form at all. It just needs the right temerature and pressure conditions.

http://creationontheweb.com/content/view...

Excerpt here:

The 1 March 1989 edition of The Age newspaper (Melbourne, Australia) carried a report from Washington (USA) entitled ‘Researchers convert sewage into oil’. The report states that researchers from Batelle Laboratories in Richland, Washington State, use no fancy biotechnology or electronics, but the process they have developed takes raw, untreated sewage and converts it to usable oil. Their recipe works by concentrating the sludge and digesting it with alkali. As the mixture is heated under pressure, the hot alkali attacks the sewage, converting the complex organic material, particularly cellulose, into the long-chain hydrocarbons of crude oil.

However, the oil produced in their first experiments did not have the qualities needed for commercial fuel oil. So, the report says, in September 1987 Batelle joined forces with American Fuel and Power Corporation, a company specializing in blending and recycling oils. Together they have made the oil more ‘free-flowing’ using an additive adapted from one developed to cut down friction in engines. A fuel has now been produced with almost the same heating value as diesel fuel. The process from sewage to oil takes only a day or two!

Answer 2

Oil is what you call a nonrenewable resource, it takes a long time to develop. You know how the oil price is going up, that is because of the customer's demand and how long it lakes to develop, so the price has to be high in order for them to gain profit. I hope that will answer your question.

Answer 3

But vegeteble oil is made continuously.

Answer 4

For natural fossil fuel oil, sure.

Some research has been done on synthetic oils, but OPEC priced that out of business.