Originally posted by Centrix Vigilis
Originally posted by Mountain Man
I remember this being debated elsewhere, and the end result was that oil does not replenish itself within a time scale of any use to humans.
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That was there and then ...this is here and now. Presuming the latter part of your opination to be correct......then why the ongoing hub bub? As I don't believe in the other arguement 'peak oil' much.. as to my mind no one has adequately estimated oil reserves in varying types to include synthetics with any acceptable veracity.......hence....got to be a reason this stuff still floats. |
If you recall, CV, it wasn't "my opinion", but the learned verdict of one particular senior petroleum geologist employed by Exxon-Mobil.
However, if you believe that oil, which takes hundreds of millions of years to form under enormous heat and pressure, replenishes itself and therefore will never run out, I will bow to your superior expertise, but I do wonder why any new oil wells are necessary since production should continue unabated forever out of all of the old ones.
How
did Dubai run out of oil, anyway?