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Old 06-24-2011, 09:04 AM
 
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From what I gather, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but the term "fossil fuel" means basically that unrefined oil is "rotten dinosaurs" to put it in the simplest, most elementary terms. Does anyone else find this absolutely absurd? Where and how did this line of thinking come about? Why is it only dead dinosaurs that become oil? Why doesn't your dead Grandma Gert become oil?

I'm sure that unfortunately I will be personally attacked as usual, instead of the actual thread topic, but if it is possible to avoid attacking me and discuss the actual subject, someone please explain to me this theory, because as of right now "fossil fuels" sounds as credibility as "flat earth."
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Old 06-24-2011, 09:07 AM
 
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Oil is not only from dead dinosaurs but from dead plants, animals, bugs, and all other organic matter.
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Old 06-24-2011, 09:09 AM
 
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Oil is not only from dead dinosaurs but from dead plants, animals, bugs, and all other organic matter.
How? Why not your dead grandpa, or a that dead mouse you killed? You've been scammed.
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Old 06-24-2011, 09:13 AM
 
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How? Why not your dead grandpa, or a that dead mouse you killed? You've been scammed.
How long has your deceased grandma been in the ground?

If the answer is not about 360 million years ago, she will not show up in your gas tank.
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Old 06-24-2011, 09:13 AM
 
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How? Why not your dead grandpa, or a that dead mouse you killed? You've been scammed.
It takes millions if not billions of years for this to occur.

The early is 4.54 Billion years old

What you have is the organic matter has to be deposited, buried, and then have the correct temperature and pressure on it to turn it into oil
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Old 06-24-2011, 09:13 AM
 
Location: Texas State Fair
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Oil is not only from dead dinosaurs but from dead plants, animals, bugs, and all other organic matter.
And it would take a few million years for grandma to sufficiently rot. So it wouldn't really be grandma, unless you're just after gasses from a landfill.

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Old 06-24-2011, 09:14 AM
 
Location: Littleton, CO
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How? Why not your dead grandpa, or a that dead mouse you killed? You've been scammed.
Here. Let me google that for you (http://tinyurl.com/66qfwvd - broken link).
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Old 06-24-2011, 09:14 AM
 
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I thought "fossil fuel" was butter pecan ice cream.
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Old 06-24-2011, 09:14 AM
 
Location: Out in the Badlands
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Right on I like to call it OIL.....drill baby drill
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Old 06-24-2011, 09:15 AM
 
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I think oil companies should begin calling the product "Organic Oil" (what a hoot that would be!)

It would appeal to the environmentalists. They could market it as 100% Organic!! LOL!!
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