Freeper contends that Oil is an unlimited substance...

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Oil is an infinite resource that is constantly being produced by heat and pressure on organic material of all types inside the Earth. That is probably why so many people in the Middle East believe in Mohammad. They keep pumping the oil out and it keeps refilling. Its a miracle, because they were told by “scientists”, its going to run out quickly!

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:wow:

:rofl:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934124/posts

What an idiot.

Same shows that say there is no global warming.

I walked away stunned and a bit creeped out when they told me that if God had wanted us to know about dinosaurs, he would have told us about them.

This right after we discussed methods for sustaining sexual pleasure with our spouses....

I felt disoriented to say the least

I'd never heard of such a thing before and it's very unusual for a Lutheran minister. He never talked about it from the pulpit or anything, but I found out when some other congregation members were talking about how funny it was that the pastor's youngest son had a dinosaur obsession. Karma.

and it is one theory of oil formation, but is largely discredited.

Apparently his brain cells aren't an unlimited resource

just checking.

I think it was "just visiting" though.

Even if we accept the notion that organic material has somehow made it's way to the depths of the planet, and I don't see why we should-- then how could that material possibly be infinite?

Even if we accept the notion that organic material has somehow made it's way to the depths of the planet

I grew up in western Pennsylvania, about 600 feet above the current sea level. Near my house, a stream has carved its way through several layers of rock. One of those layers is of limestone, and it contains many fossils from organisms that grew and lived on the ocean floor.

The highest point on Earth, Mt. Everest, is made from similar material - limestone. The earth's crust is not a static thing.

Back to my stream bed, though. One of the other layers the stream cuts through is a thin layer of coal. Coal is also the product of organic material. Interesting thing about coal - it takes a lot of pressure to turn that organic material into coal. I think the estimate for this particular bed of coal require something like a kilometer of rock to exist above the coal bed in order for this type of coal to be formed. But now it's right there, at the surface. So at some point, this organic material (plants) existed at the surface, was covered with more than a kilometer of sediment, which was afterwards eroded away. So where did a kilometer of sediment come from? If you look at central Pennsylvania on a topographical map, you'll see the Appalachian mountains. Most of them aren't much taller than a thousand or two thousand feet. They used to be as high as the himalayas.

The Earth is not static.

or the mantle. I'm aware that things are moving about, though I admit I'm no geologist. Thanks for the info though.

on one of Saturn's moons, Titan. I don't know if those hydrocarbon lakes are made of liquid matter that is similar to Earth's petroleum. But it's interesting.

Crude oil is a very complex blend of hydrocarbons that only photosynthesis could produce.

There are plenty of naturally occuring hydrocabons.

You just couldn't run a car with them.

Maybe that explains 800+ degree Fahrenheit Venus? Cause it sure isn't just the sun alone making it that hot. :eyes:

that snuck into freeperville?

To: Man50D

CO 2’s gonnna get us first.

7 posted on 12/03/2007 1:42:34 PM PST by Waco
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Fess up!!! :rofl:

its this stuff and its black and the brown people got it in them their countryes and it never gonna run out cause god put it their for us peeple to use

Freepers have got skillz, don't they?

:dunce: :dunce: :dunce:

And what about the Mexican field? And Half of Texas?

Why didn't those oil wells "refill" themelves??

It's not believed by many today due to the fact that there was never any evidence found to prove it was true.

for obvious purposes.

They live in a fantasy world -- when reality intrudes, it's going to hurt something awful.

And "believe in Mohammed"? Say what? Ignorance abounds.

They have a plan for when it all comes crashing down:

1. Blame liberals
2. Blame foreigners.
3. Repeat until everything gets better

:rofl:

'let big business do whatever it wants'.

People don't contribute to global warming, it's just a natural cycle that will take care of itself.

Markets don't need to be regulated, they're divine systems that magically regulate themselves.

We don't need environmental laws, the environment will somehow be fine.

We don't need to look elsewhere for energy, oil will keep bubbling up infinitely.

I know they aren't all corporate executives. You'd think the rank and file would've picked up on this theme and realized they're being played by now.

oil is in the 400 buck range. You need to take out a small loan to fill up your car.

And a nutjob right wing knocks at my door looking for food. (I grow a lot of what I eat)

I will first say, "how hungry are you?"

Then I will ask, "first admit to me that you were colossally wrong, that all the bullshit that you spewed ten years ago was nothing but self serving smug bullshit"

Then I will feed them.

Maybe someone could figure out a way to harness it as an energy source.

n/m

Just gotta change a coupla key words.



Stupid is an infinite resource that is constantly being produced by heat and pressure on organic material of all types inside my skull. That is probably why so many people in the West believe in the GOP. They keep pumping the stupid out and it keeps refilling. Its a miracle, because they were told by "liberals", its going to run out quickly!

invade other countries to get at it?

All your infinite resource inside Earth organic material are belong to us!!111!

I think we've found a gusher here

Usually making plenty of noise in the process.

Becaaue that just made me :spray:

The place where people live in opposite realms as we live, here, at DU. Evilverse.

Not only is the first part physically impossible (the infinite organic material part) the second part is just stupid.

It's really not as far-fetched as it might sound on the surface. There are some scientists who subscribe to the theory that oil is produced from ancient fossil materials deep beneath the earth (hence the name fossil fuel) and that it is being produced faster than humans are using it. They point to the fact that some wells actually have increased in production over the years and that we now know of far greater reserves in oil than we did years ago (thanks largely to better mapping techniques probably).

However, little is actually known about how oil is produced, its rate of production, etc. I would say the more consensus view is that oil is a finite source, but what do I know?

It seems you skipped a few classes.

But it is a recognized scientific proposition. I'm just saying it's not automatically outlandish as some on here instinctively believe.

Wow.

It's a miracle.

And encouraging wars to get the "ragheads" oil before anyone else does and then it belongs to them, while using our military paid for with our taxes to keep those greedy republican fat boys rich.

Evolution is a myth...
George W. Bush is a patriot...
Larry Craig is straight...
Ann Coulter is sane...
Iraq had WMD...
Iran is pursuing nukes...
Rudy Giuliani was the hero of 9/11...
etc...etc...etc...

Bless their pointy little heads, they can't help it.

nobody on the planet can be that entirely stupid and/or misinformed...

Oil is made from matter at its base level, just like everything is. since there is a finite amount of matter available in the universe, only a finite amount of material can ever be converted into oil, there is a limit on the amount of oil that could exist.

Matter is finite - however stupidity knows no bounds.

But would the seep up to the places where oil already exists, or would it take totally new tectonic shifts to provide pathways to areas where they could be extracted? Thus far, I am not aware of any oil ever discovered that has been attributed to this process and not decomposition of buried organic matter. However, that doesn't mean it doesn't happen, either.

Pyrolysis (creating artificial fuel) using heat, pressure, organic matter and either water or hydrogen gas is the scientific method for doing this and, at 85% efficiency, is far more doable than that of making corn ethanol which requires 1 unit of energy for every 1.3 units of energy created. It also makes far more sense than biodiesel from seed crops or ethanol from cellulose, neither of which is currently sustainable.

I am disappointed at the knee-jerk reaction to this post simply because it came from the Grand-Daddy of all freeper sites. Pyrolysis could be the one technology that saves our asses. God knows, most of us throw enough carbon-based material away every single day to fuel our cars and we'd bypass the whole methane leaking, toxic environment landfill cycle if we started making fuel out of our sewage, plastics, junk mail, dirty diapers and kitchen scraps.

:rofl:

Holmes :D :hug:

:D :hi: :hug:

but not for the reasons they support.....
Series, this is hugh.

Oil comes from the pores of rightwingers that never leave their parents basements.
This means that OIL comes from them.... and if stupidity is gold.....

No resource on Earth is infinite, because the Earth itself is finite. I guess they mean the process that forms oil is vastly faster than the processes we use to remove it from the ground. "Scientists" haven't found any evidence to support this. Which is why most no longer believe this to be true. If it were true than this freeper should be really mad because his President is really screwing him on the price of something that is infinite in supply and yet is sky rocketing in price. He's president has just brought his country to the brink of bankruptcy to fight a war for a commodity that is infinite in supply. OMG if he was really firm in his beliefs he'd be an anti-republicans...

and in the next geological epoch, there will be plenty of oil.

Explains a lot about republican policies now doesn't it?

over in freeperland.

no surprise there.

the organic material inside the earth keeps coming from? Home Depot, the decaying bones of unsaved heathens, baby jeebus miracled it in there??:wtf: It's like they come up with an idea and never bother to follow it to it's logical conclusion.

oh, wait. it can.

If this is true, then why isn't the US drilling again in Titusville, PA?

Oops! If the supply is unlimited, then prices should never go up. But, these same subsimians trot out S&D every time there's a price spike.

How's that working out for you freeps, now?
The Professor

but NOWHERE near the rate that it is being pumped out and consumed. Of course, anything is a possibility in whatever universe that freeper is living in....

:silly:

listening to them is like listening to the scream of the abyss. not pleasant and eventually quite predictable and sad, thus the nature of hell.