Freeper-type thinks that oil just grows magically in the ground

[Hugabear]

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/story/2012-01-22/geothermal-power/52702158/1

From the comments section, in response to a post that we are past peak oil...

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Hogwash! They tried to say the same thing in the 70s, and there has been more oil discovered Since the 70s than they even knew Existed in the 70s! But you keep drinking the koolaid... maybe it will turn in to a burnable fuel. There is no way, given the depth that oil is found in the earth, that it is formed from decayed plant matter. Yet that bs is still trumpeted by govt-paid psuedo scientists. We have plenty of oil and will continue to have plenty of oil for the next 200 years at least. And in 200 years technology will be so advanced, people will chuckle that we even had this conversation.
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Drill baby drill! Don't worry, god will just make more!

[rustydog]

1. "...First thing you know, old Jebs a millionaire.."

[pinboy3niner]

10. You ain't makin' fun o' Jeb, are you?

[sorcrow]

11. Jed not Jeb

Jedidiah Clampett. Old testament name.

Regards,
Crow

[TheWraith]

2. Unfortunately, a lot of people believe this, including some on the "left."

It's called the theory of abiogenic oil origin. Totally horseshit, of course, and rejected by any credible scientist, but people keep bringing it up.

[Hugabear]

4. Wow

Had no idea there was an actual name for this, besides "stupid fucking idea". Guess it goes up there with the "theory" of intelligent design.

[TheWraith]

9. It was mostly popularized by Soviet "scientists," and promoted in the west by kooks.

Although it was first proposed in the 1500s, it was mostly advanced by Soviet scientists in the 1950s, as a classic example of "Soviet science" advancing completely different, and completely wrong, theories primarily to show off how much smarter they were than western capitalist imperialist scientists. Of course, it completely failed in the effort to predict the location of oil deposits using this method. While there are some small amounts of hydrocarbons formed by natural non-biological chemistry processes, all evidence has always shown oil reserves to have biological origins.

[Capitalocracy]

3. If it's not made from old biological material...

all that means is when it runs out, it's gone forever, and won't reform over the next few billion years either.

[yellowcanine]

5. If GAWD can make magic mushrooms she can make magic oil.....

[Odin2005]

6. "Abiotic Oil" is the favorite woo-woo of RWers who hate environmentalists.

[denverbill]

7. Well, how many plants could have possibly grown in 6000 years anyway.

So since the earth is only 6000 years old, it must be growing magically somehow.

[louis-t]

8. These are the same people that believe the XL pipeline

will ensure all that tar sands oil from Canada will stay here if we can just get it to Tejas to be refined. They also believe drilling in the gulf will force gas prices down, and the Easter Bunny and Gilligan's Island are real.

[Motown_Johnny]

12. Creationists have the same answer for everything

God put it there