The Myth of Finite Fossil Oil

Over the years, we have heard many comments concerning our limited reserves of fossil fuel oil. The prophits of limited oil reserves have been proven wrong each time. Where did the definition of oil as a fossil fuel come from? A good history source can be found here. LINK  A Russian   Mikhail Lomonosov developed the biogenic theory in 1757 that stated that oil was created by the decompositon of organic material.

The first rejection of this hypothesis occurred about a half century later. The German geologist A. von Humboldt and the French chemist L. J. Gay-Lussac (both quite famous scientists at the time) proposed that oil came from great depths within the earth and was unrelated to biological material. Another French chemist M. Berthelot scorned the biological origin notion and demonstrated that organic molecules could be created from inorganic materials. Other scientists of the time confirmed this result. During the latter part of the nineteenth century, the Russian scientist D. Mendeleev, discoverer of the Periodic Table of the Elements, proclaimed that oil is a primordial material that erupted from great depths beneath the earth. He hypothesized that the oil travelled along the pathway of deep faults. He was criticized by the geologists of the time because deep faults were unknown then. Today we know they exist as plate tectonics and are well understood. This was the basis for the development of the Abiotic Theory.  Abiotic Theory holds that oil is continously being produced by chemical synthesis deep within the earth's mantle.  A good summary of the scientific evidence supporting Abiotic Theory can be found here LINK here LINK and here LINK .

What does this mean to us?  It means that we will never run out of oil and there is no need for expensive alternate energy sources.  Stop the Cap and Trade nonsense and drill baby drill.  Our economic crisis can be stopped in its tracks by the simple procedure of drilling on our own shores and stop sending our wealth overseas to the Arabs.