What is the original source of oil?

Question

Why are there huge deposits in such desolate areas as deserts and the Arctic? What lesson is there for the Religion of Global Climate Change and the prophet Algore?

Answer 1

Oil comes from dead lifeforms.  The hydrocarbons from the lifeforms are buried so they do not combine with oxygen.  These hydrocarbons become more saturated with Hydrogen and become what we know as oil.

Answer 2

somebody no believe in tectonical plating or dead dinosaur

Answer 3

The religion of climate change has it's own corrupt priesthood and this is a sort of evironmental inquistion.  Oil sources will continue to grow as time goes on but we do need alternatives like nuclear...

Answer 4

I agree with Jim Z.  WAY too much crude for a few million dead animals & plants to produce the seemingly endless amounts of crude this planet is drowning in.

Answer 5

Oil came from the Sun!   Vast amounts of solar energy , over millions of years was transformed into plant material and animal life. That ancient solar energy is now being released into our fragile atmosphere in ever increasing amounts! We need to behave like the 'intelligent' creatures we claim to be!   The common sense thing to do is to go to the source of ALL energy... solar!  That also includes wind and tidal power as well.   If you were trying to imply that there is some sort of "Divine" plan to where oil is found, you are barking up the wrong tree!

Answer 6

Scientist beleive that dead dinosaurus are the source.

Answer 7

One theory, probably the most accepted, is that oil comes from the remains of life that has been under extreme pressure and heat. It is important to remember that the world looked much different than today. Ocean's were much higher (there were no glaciers), and areas that are now desserts were under water.

Another theory (I just started researching this) is that oil is not derived from dead animals and plants of long ago. This theory says that oil is created by a chemical process, not breakdown of dead animals.

http://freeenergynews.com/Directory/Theo...

http://novatownhall.com/2008/04/19/more-...

Again, I just started researching this, so I am only providing a site which explains it. There are other sites.

Answer 8

Jim Z  is Correct.  Another good web page:

Hydrocarbon Fuels Aren't Fossils

http://www.mitosyfraudes.org/Ingles2/Fos...

"hydrocarbons are present on lifeless heavenly bodies such as moons, asteroids, comets, and, of course, the gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. In fact, the blue coloration of planet Uranus is the result of methane, a so-called fossil fuel."

Lessons for the closed minded perverted left wing loons!?!?

They don't have the intelligence to comprehend this!

Answer 9

The Sun.

Solar energy is used by green organisms to create complex sugars and vegetable oils (hydrocarbons) which may be further processed by fauna into animal fat (different hydrocarbons) which are buried under tons of rock which compresses and cooks those forms of hydrocarbons into petroleum.

As for why the deposits are found in particular locations I suggest you study Geology.

The lesson for everyone is that the vast majority of energy on this planet comes from the Sun (othr than geothermal) and if you burn all the solar energy which has been converted to chemical energy while at the same time producing environmental problems which trap excess solar energy in the biosphere it will be a very rough existence, if you continue to exist at all.

Answer 10

As a geologist, I was taught that oil theoretically came from dead life that had its remains in tiny pores in clays (or shales)  that built up pressure needed to make the  the larger oil molecules.  I think a more likely theory that is not accepted by many American geologists but is popular in some other countries is the theory of abiotic (meaning not from life) formation in a deep hot biosphere.  With this theory, after the earth accreted, methane was incorporated in the rock because it didn't get hot enough to "cook" it.  Most geologist now accept the cold accretion theory meaning all the meteors, comets, and dust formed in a non liquid (no magma) form.  The methane then began moving to the surface because it is was lighter in weight.  It moved as a liquid through cracks.  Eventually life forms evolved billions of years ago.  They were extremophiles, bacteria that fed on methane (methanothrophic bacteria).  These bacteria that lived miles deep in the cracks then formed the petroleum.  This theory also accounts for high grade coal, natural gas (which is methane) and methane hydrate deposits.  In my opinion, the term fossil fuel is a term that will die the death of a dinosaur.  So what you get with this theory is far more oil than can be accounted for in a biologic theory.  Oil has been found in granites miles down in association with these bacteria and other places it should not be.  It is common in places where fractures are common such as at plate boundaries (i.e middle east and off shore, or most oil reserves).

edit: Some how I expect that Pategru or whatever he calls himself, knows nothing about what he pretends to be an expert in.  He can give me a down arrow but what I said were simple facts.  I obviously could only provide a bit of the evidence.  There is a phenomena where oil fields seem to magically refill.  This is likely because there are vast untapped reserves located beneath existing fields at least in some cases.  The left loves to pretend that everything is known, that we have found all the oil, that we must move away from it.  The problem with that mindset is that it is far from the truth.  

For those that insist that fossil fuels are biotic, I would like for them to explain the rivers of methane on the moon Titan.  Somehow we are supposed to believe that all methane on Titan is abiotic and all methane on the Earth is biotic.  Old ideas die hard.