On: Some Contemporary Heresies

[kbelder]

These run the gamut from reasonable to nuts. But this one...

>18. Oil is not a fossil life fuel but a geological product.

I just can't shake my feeling that it's true. Even though I doubt it is. I mean... there's pools of hydrocarbons ALL OVER the solar system.

[bawolff → kbelder]

I'm confused what this means. The production of fossil fuels is a geologic product.

To quote wikipedia: "The transitions from these source materials to high-carbon fossil fuels typically requires a geological process of millions of years, sometimes more than 650 million years"