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| Future oil? Naaah... |
Joe's level of dumbassery about the oil business is quite impressive. take for instance, his belief that...
"We were all taught that millions of years ago the earth was a warm paradise filled with large roaming cold blooded dinosaurs [emphasis ours] lush green vegetation... immense pressure and heat on the lower layers slowly preserving and turning dead trees and animals into a thick gooey substance we call oil."
As far as we know, only four-year-olds (and ignorant adults) think oil is rotted dinosaurs. Most other people know that dinosaurs didn't appear on earth until about 200 million years ago, yet plenty of oil comes from rocks much older than the first dino. Joe went on to (mis)inform us that
"...there seems to be a numbers problem. For the billions of barrels of oil that we know to exist, there had to be trillions upon trillions of dinosaurs and who knows how many forests arranged in neat piles to create all the oil wells that are being tapped today."
Dumbass! even if oil did (just) come from dinosaurs, he had the numbers backward: a single dinosaur was certainly larger than a barrel of oil (otherwise a T. rex would just be cuddly instead of scary). And then, of course, there's the ridiculous notion that everything had to be "arranged in neat little piles." Why? so some magical creature didn't have to go to the storeroom in the sky for more dinos and forests to turn into oil? And then there's
"Then we have the scavenger problem. Like today, most of the carcasses were probably an easy meal. It is likely that dinosaurs played a very small part in the process."
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| Here's where our dumbass got his "information" - note that Mr Corsi's PhD is in... wait for it... Political Science! (love the swastika, though) |
"How did the dinosaurs and trees collect in these pits upon death?"What "pits"? You mean those giant puddles of oil down under the ground? And the hits just keep on coming:
"Many wells around the world are refilling."Joe's "evidence" for this is that (some) wells (supposedly) have produced far longer than expected. Of course, he provided no evidence other than his own statements, which - given his childlike level of familiarity with science in general and petroleum in specific - were quite suspect. And that's when we get to the heart of Joe's dumbassery: hydrocarbons, he said, aren't organic compounds: they're formed by outgassing of methane from the mantle. Joe proudly informs us that
"Hydrocarbons deep within the earth and under intense pressure create a thick syrup. As it moves upward toward the mantle, sedimentation and bacteria give it a biological foot print."Joe neglected to inform us how a hydrocarbon "moving... through the mantle" could survive the trip through rocks with an average temperature of 4,400° C. After all, gasoline's ignition point is about 235° C... No, the theory of abiotic oil (which is where this dumbass was headed) is dismissed by most scientists; and even those who subscibe to the theory would probably cringe at Joe's childlike retelling of the biogenic theory. Here's why he wrote this, though: Joe thinks biogenic hydrocarbon theory is a "conspiracy" and that "big oil" is hiding the truth that fossil fuels are renewable to drive up prices (and, of course, that Obama is at fault). That's a political view, not a scientific one. |
Yeah, politics in place of science... a Dumbass: a Dumbass of the Day!
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