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Alumbrado -> RE: Earth and Oil (5/29/2008 1:08:08 PM)
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ORIGINAL: FangsNfeet Earth has oil in it for a reason does it not? All that decayed matter is down under the crust to later become something else. I wonder what it's real purpose is. As we continue to use and end up deleting oil, what part of the puzzle are we taking out of Earths big picture in evolution and change. OK, just got in from a lovely lunch with my lovely geologist... As I recall, and greatly oversimplified: Oil is indeed one step in a process... but it will remain what we think of as 'oil' as long as is is within the 'oil window' of temperature and pressure... there is no new 'product' like coal from carbon over time, unless something changes drastically enough for it to turn to methane. Should pockets of oil be depleted, the 'bubble' left behind may cause some localized anomalies, but the notion of Europe sliding into the briny because all the North Sea oil has been pumped out, can only remain wishful thinking...errr, I mean a misconception. Oil isn't the hydraulic fluid that holds the planet together. She also confirmed that the exhaustion of current readily available oil will take place sooner rather than later, but that it has nothing to do with the current spike in prices.
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