The oil and gas industry does like to make up words to make petrochemicals more palatable.
Like they invented the term “Natural gas” to make methane sound better. Burning methane for cooking and heating sounds a lot worse than natural gas and almost makes it seem like it’s not that bad.
Honey_Wooden on
Right. Oil wells never go dry, which is why oil prices never go up. Solid logic, there.
IpsoKinetikon on
I was curious and read an article about this. Apparently this is based on a hypothesis from the 16th century.
They found that oil and gas can form abiogenetically, but only in low concentrations. The majority of what we actually find is biogenic.
satans_toast on
Please tell me this is just a troll
Drake_the_troll on
>looks inside
>multiple payments from the koch brothers
EdwardBigby on
If fossil fuel is a marketing term then oil companies are really shit at marketing
Constant-Recipe-9850 on
“i failed my elementary science class, so i will make shit up to fit my own narrative”
Admirable_Nothing on
Well Wikipedia says you are wrong as well as everything else I can find in Google.
It’s interesting that apparently the North Sea oil fields that had been drained several years ago have, at least partially, refilled?
Objectionne on
Fossil fuels are not renewable but we’re also not going to run out of them any time soon. This aspect of energy issues has been overblown in the past – if the concern was just about running out then we could wait another 100 years.
We want to move away from fossil fuels urgently because of their environmental impact, not because of supply issues.
launchedsquid on
The depths at and the geological layers that oil deposit can be found at prove this by themselves.
H4llifax on
I remember talks about peak oil, but nowadays we really shouldn’t need to talk about it anymore. Regardless of the origin, it’s a bad idea to blast terraforming amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.
CRITICALWORKER777 on
it’s fuel… originating from fossilized remains… i don’t know about you, but fossil fuels, as a name, works quite well.
kaehvogel on
Sure, the earth is “constantly making more”. Just like your body is constantly “making more hair”.
But if you shave it all off, you can’t expect to have a full blown mane again within two minutes after shaving.
CzarTwilight on
I’m gonna take a wild guess that the guy saying this is some sort of process of abiogenisis does not believe in abiogenisis
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The oil and gas industry does like to make up words to make petrochemicals more palatable.
Like they invented the term “Natural gas” to make methane sound better. Burning methane for cooking and heating sounds a lot worse than natural gas and almost makes it seem like it’s not that bad.
Right. Oil wells never go dry, which is why oil prices never go up. Solid logic, there.
I was curious and read an article about this. Apparently this is based on a hypothesis from the 16th century.
They found that oil and gas can form abiogenetically, but only in low concentrations. The majority of what we actually find is biogenic.
Please tell me this is just a troll
>looks inside
>multiple payments from the koch brothers
If fossil fuel is a marketing term then oil companies are really shit at marketing
“i failed my elementary science class, so i will make shit up to fit my own narrative”
Well Wikipedia says you are wrong as well as everything else I can find in Google.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel)
It’s interesting that apparently the North Sea oil fields that had been drained several years ago have, at least partially, refilled?
Fossil fuels are not renewable but we’re also not going to run out of them any time soon. This aspect of energy issues has been overblown in the past – if the concern was just about running out then we could wait another 100 years.
We want to move away from fossil fuels urgently because of their environmental impact, not because of supply issues.
The depths at and the geological layers that oil deposit can be found at prove this by themselves.
I remember talks about peak oil, but nowadays we really shouldn’t need to talk about it anymore. Regardless of the origin, it’s a bad idea to blast terraforming amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.
it’s fuel… originating from fossilized remains… i don’t know about you, but fossil fuels, as a name, works quite well.
Sure, the earth is “constantly making more”. Just like your body is constantly “making more hair”.
But if you shave it all off, you can’t expect to have a full blown mane again within two minutes after shaving.
I’m gonna take a wild guess that the guy saying this is some sort of process of abiogenisis does not believe in abiogenisis
So many damaged brains…