Its so funny, I have paddled down the river so far from that conversation. Oh well. When I invent my Anti-gravity machine it wont matter what science I didn’t know. It will just matter that in some screwed up way I figured it out. The rest of this is just passing time.
You must realize that you come across as insane and severely delusional. Even if you’re sure that you aren’t, don’t you realize that it’s how you look?
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Then perhaps you should learn some chemistry before you try and tell geologists that they’ve got their chemical processes for the formation of oil all wrong. At the very least you need to learn the difference between a simple, short-chain hydrocarbon (and methane, with only one carbon atom, is the shortest) and the very-long-chain hydrocarbons that make up oil.
Digestion (as well as all forms of decay) turns longer chain organic compounds into shorter chain ones (including methane). Thus, this process is of no use in the creation of oil, unless you already have even-longer-chain organic compounds to start with. The consensus scientific explanation of the formation of oil states that these even-longer-chain organic compounds come from surface biomass (and ultimately from photosynthesis). What is your alternative?
Wikipedia already describes the process here.
just because you have no imagination doesn’t mean I don’t. I was hoping you could at least add something to the conversation other than criticism. Its as if the only commodity here is criticism and bickering and no one has a bit of information they could share. its terrible.
You were telling me how I knew nothing about Oil but you never said a peep. It gives a new meaning to the conservation of energy.
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
– Harlan Ellison
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You have me confused with someone else. I never mentioned oil, only energy and force.
maybe so. A few hours seems like a life time to me and I wouldn’t remember if it was the pope who said it. Been that way since my youth. So I cant really hold a grudge I don’t know who offended me. LoL.
When you start the conversation with a Youtube video from a notorious conspiracy theorist who has no expertise whatsoever in the topic of conversation, you can hardly be surprised when people take a jaundiced view.
If you had just asked “Hey, where does oil come from” instead, I could probably have sent you the link to the Wikipedia article above, and saved us all a lot of time. 
Check and see if anyone answered the question with Science???
You want another provocative video? something to start a conversation try this one.
Life is too short for random ignorant shit-stirring.
I was actually more interested in Prouty’s backstory than his ignorant crackpot claims about oil. But that’s just me. 
And the video is one of a past important person in Gov’t. He was no fringe person. It nicely opened up the conversation about a real topic for today.
Yes, I was interested in his conversation about the details of meetings etc. Some people are the guy “in the room” when this happened or that happened. He was one of those guys.
Good title for a book. “I was in the room”
That he was “a past important person in Gov’t” makes him no more credible, particularly in a field completely unrelated to his field of expertise within government.
And, after he left government, he turned into a very “fringe” person – including involvement with Scientology, association with racists, etc, etc.
I had an Info Science lecturer who was (reputedly) a believer in Alien Abductions. Does that make Alien Abductions any more credible? Of course not.
The question of whether oil is fossil is about as “real” as Middle Earth. 
True enough. People are right about some things but not always right about all things. I think his point is valid. But maybe the answer is simple Like I suggested, when there is a liquid involved like water materials can end up much deeper even though they were from plants or organic matter from somewhere else. And who’s to say that the Oil didn’t just soak into rocks and such in the process going deeper and deeper.
Still the term “fossil fuel” suggests dinosaurs may be the rotting things causing the creation of Oil which I have heard suggested when really its small microscopic life that looks like honeycombs and shell shapes.
Who’s to say? Chemists and geologists say it didn’t happen that way. You can either (i) take their word for it, or (ii) read a great many books on chemistry and geology, to find out why they say that.
It kills me I cant remember names. I was thinking Diatoms. The coolest stuff ever.