Re: Peak oil is an balloon, let's break it.

From: N:dlzc D:aol T:com \(dlzc\) (net_at_nospam.com)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:40:21 -0700

As I understand this argument, oil is purportedly produced naturally
somewhere under surface of the Earth. I would assume that there would then
be no use in doing C-14 analysis, since the source of the carbon would no
longer contain significant traces of atmospherically-produced carbon. I
would also assume then that arguments relating to how much oxygen has been
liberated by plant matter would be moot, since this oil is *in excess* of
the matching amount of plant matter (which is now on/near the surface of
the Earth).

Isn't the real problem that it has taken so many million years, by whatever
source, to produce this oil? I notice that there are no abandoned wells
that have filled back up.

David A. Smith

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