Do you really believe oil came from dinosaur meat?

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Originally Posted by MyNameIsBellaMia

And there's your answer to every so-called scientific question.

I guess the "logical" answer then is jesus waved his magic fingers and oil just appeared like magic? of course even remotely proving that concept is full of holes.

Of course, when you take "...aren't really sure" out of CONTEXT it looks unsure, but IN context as it was originally written it said THIS, and now the words "...aren't really sure," becomes clear as a bell that they were referring to how LONG the process actually takes not the chemical process itself:

So how long does this process take?

Scientists aren't really sure, but they figure it's probably on the order of hundreds of thousands of years."

We know plants, ferns etc as well as fossils wind up being discovered in coal beds too, various sedementary rocks are also created by the deposition of layers and layers of sand and in the case of limestone- billions of very tiny skeletal remains of sea creatures called Foraminifera and anyone with eyes can see the individual layers that are just like the annual growth rings in trees, proving their age.

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Originally Posted by Leisesturm

And even if you were right, and new oil is being produced in the millions of barrels a day, it wouldn't matter because the U.S. alone uses tens of millions of barrels a day! A net loss in other words.

That's another reason why pipelines like the Keystone XL and the other one that people think are going to solve our problems, they won't, in fact one line is to ship crude oil from Canada where ancient forests have been destroyed to mine down to get the tar sand oil out- you can see the destruction from space now! all of that oil is going to Taxes refineries where the toxic pollutants will be left HERE, and the refined oil loaded in tankers to ship overseas where people had been paying upwards of $10 to $12 a gallon for gas and happy to get it! That's why scooters and motorcycles as well as very small vehicles are popular in places like Taiwan and there's so many of them on the streets.

They won't sell this oil to us directly because drivers get all pissed off and protest if gasoline is higher than about $2 a gallon.

The other pipe line's max flow, the one going under the Nativer American Indian's reservation and river which is their ONLY source of drinking water- is about 500,000 barrels a day as I remember, we use up over 20 MILLION barrels a day, 500,000 is peanuts.

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And other dead things, yes. You don't have to focus on dinosaurs alone, that's just meant to give you an example of where oil came from.