I like turtles!!!!

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I agree with DD, and its really funny that they dragged Cheney into this BS.

Exactly, always some political agenda involved. Cheney has nothing to do with current exploration and somehow someone is the media will tie him to anything that has to do with oil/gas.

Oil Exploration Theories- Very Interesting Read
 

This is the dumbest load of crock I have ever heard. I am a third year geology student as well. That article got so many things wrong it's unbelievable. To start, dinosaur remains do not form oil deposits. Dinosaurs lived in continental settings, these are oxidizing conditions that quickly break down organic molecules. Most hydrocarbon source rocks are deep marine environments, thus anoxic conditions and are mostly microorganism "goo".
This goo gets buried and heated, organic chains break down under heat and pressure causing kerogen to form. From 60*C to 120* you have oil forming, 120*c to 150*C natural gas, above 150*C hydrocarbons get destroyed and you get mostly methane or graphite.

I'd be intrested to know if there is more than one way for oil to form, could both be correct. If a person is educated under one theory they may say "no way" to the other theory.

I think alot of people get confused on the dino idea. It's not actually the animals that would have formed the oil. In order for the environment to support very large herbivores there would have to be massive amount of fauna. Some info i have read says that during some huge geologic event (volcanic or astroid) that huge amonts of fauna may have been buried. We know by fossil record that massive amounts of peat moss existed, massive being swamps the size of continents. If this happened it could explain shallow oil deposits. Large amount of oil in the North Sea, Alaska, and Siberia could have come from massive ancient forests being buried. Currently the largest and densest forests in the world ring the northern latitudes. maybe they existed in the past and were buried by ice or other sources. Do to there latitude they may have been cooler and formed more oil. The middle east region was also hugely forested millions of years ago when it was much further south, continental drift models indicate this.

We know that some astroids contain massive amonts of carbon. I believe they are also the most common, but can't recall where i read it. These astroids are also the ones that some scientists beleive could have brought the building blocks of life to earth. Could these astroids have collided with earth hundreds of millions of years ago and been buried deep enough in the crust to be heated and pressurized to the point that they two developed into crude?

I would like to see some of these papers from russian scientist. I would also like to see both sides cross study each others findings. Could both be right?

I'll just keep driving my old gas guzzlers and big diesel pickups until we either run out or I can no longer afford it, whichever comes first, thank you very much.

Then I'll figure out what to do next... :w2:

Come on - whats not to like about a Prius???





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Evil:
All lithium battery powered hybrids are far more dangerous to the environment than an oil burner. It has to be strip mined, processed and maufactured into a battery. As some of you know diesel is a waste product of the refining process associated with gas. That is until it became popular, had the sulphur taken out and was cleaned up. Now it is a cleaner more effective use of fuel than ever before.

Do what I do, save the planet, drive an oil burner. The looks I get at the fuel island with the Benz are priceless.:scare2:

We have a highlander hybrid at work. lasted 6 months. Its broke.