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the important thing is nobody really knows for sure which is the true origin of oil, so we're going to act as though it's the really convenient one and be all affronted whenever anyone suggests otherwise.

except... even if it's the convenient, abiotic regenerative origin... that kinda means we could potentially put more CO2 into the atmosphere than was ever present at any point in the planet's past. Like, if it were fossil fuels, then even if we burned every last drop there would still be some form of life that could survive the conditions, cus it was life that trapped all that carbon in the first place. But if we're just pumping an endless supply of complex carbon chains....

"oil cycle" is a good bit

Who was consuming this oil in the cycle before humans existed.

I remember hearing some theory that oil might be produced by extremophile bacteria deep in the crust, which doesn't make much sense, but it's more plausible than the idea that oil spontaneously generates out of rocks, WTF.

Coal miners regularly find fossils in coal mines, and oil companies often employ paleontologists who study microscopic fossils brought up from oil wells to learn about the layers of rock they're drilling through: https://wiki.aapg.org/Microfossils_in_exploration

If anyone wants some brain damage I've never even heard of abiotic oil before. We're cooked if there are people that think this is real...

I think there was some peak oil cope back in the day that was something along the lines of "we dont really know where oil comes from, it could come from the earth's mantle!"

This is what that billions of Koch ~~blood~~ lobbying money paid to accomplish.

this is probably insanely harmful, at least far worse than flat-earthers, but It's still whimsical when reactionaries revive theories of 16th century natural philsophers like this and telegony and stuff compared to the normal social Darwinism shit.

We’re so cooked

If oil could be cheaply manufactured without mining, there would be a solid three dozen people in most Gulf states.

Well y'see, oil comes from dinosaur bones, and satan places dinosaur bones to trick us into thinking evolution is real, and since there are more and more excavations, satan needs to plant more fake dinosaur bones to keep up. The only thing stopping this from having no limit is that eventually satan will get tired.

The weird patsocs are really into abiotic oil lol

The education system is fucked lol.

Even people who correctly understand that it's biological, think it comes from dinosaurs. It's like they heard the term 'fossil fuel' and just filled in the gaps.

A lot of our oil comes from long, long before dinosaurs existed. I believe it's mostly pressurized plankton and plants/diatoms/algae/seaweed?

But yeah, if I am to get a bit tin foil: even if the education system wasn't fucked, I think most people are suffering from some kind of severe trauma and/or propaganda induced psychosis. Also repeated COVID infections fucked up a lot of people's brains. Everyone is very sick and very depressed.

I've noticed previously smart people I know go through some weird cognitive decline in the last 5 years. It's actually really scary.

they read about Mystery Flesh Pit National Park and thought it was a real thing that existed and there are real slumbering elder gods that poop oil

https://thespouter.substack.com/p/to-dispense-with-abiotic-oil

recommend a bit of "investigation" prior to right to speak. It has an interesting history. Mao and Stalin were abiotic oil guys for a time!

crude petroleum (literally plant medicine)