The Source of Oil
There is a quiet but interesting debate running about how Oil is produced. There is the general acceptance that Oil (and Coal) came from fossilization of organic matter but there is also evidence that Oil production does not require fossilization to happen.
This
website has a good debate on the issue plus lots of links...
From the website introduction:
The abiotic oil debate and "peak oil"
The following is a collection of excerpts and links concerning a recent and ongoing important debate over the contending theories of oil origins (fossil vs. abiotic) between Mike Ruppert of From the Wilderness and Dave McGowan, as well as related topics pertaining to the scientific foundation of "peak oil" predictions. I do not wish to offer any final judgements, and I'm not qualified to do so, but I do think that McGowan and others have raised a great deal of documentation and argument which deserve close attention. Everything on this page is presented for informational purposes, intended as a review of the debate thus far.
Some of the links presented are very biased but it's an interesting read -- pick and tease out the nuggets and leave the obvious tin-foil-hat stuff alone...
Posted by DaveH at March 28, 2005 9:44 PM