Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 04/07/18> Tell me again… where does oil come from?

Back several years ago when I was in elementary school the text books at that time said that oil was created from the remains of dinosaurs that had died several millions of years ago and through the decaying process and being covered by layers and layers of soils they ended up with their natural fluids being heated by the earth and the result of the process created crude oil.

That oil then found its way into voids within the rock structures of the earth where it would end up collecting into pools or reservoirs that would eventually be discovered. The reserves were then drilled into and pumps were used to pump the oil to the surface of the earth were it was collected and then processed into refined oil and oil type products.

In my mind, even when I was young, I questioned that theory. When I was a youngster back in the 1960’s gasoline was less than 25 cents a gallon, including all the taxes at the time. In the mid 60’s oil production was around 7.5 million barrels a day in the United States. There are 42 US liquid gallons in a barrel of oil so that daily production was 315,000,000 gallons of oil daily. For the theory of the day to be correct about dinosaurs being the source of crude oil the North American content had to be one solid mass of big scary creatures a long time ago.

I have always been a critical thinker, even when I was young, and teachers didn’t like that when I was in school. I questioned about oil and the dinosaurs because we also were learning about fossils and there just weren’t enough dinosaur fossil discoveries being found. You would think that every time a new road would be cut or a mining operation strip mining coal or rock they would be pulling up dinosaur remnants left and right, but it wasn’t happening.

Now I see that the theory of the dinosaur as the source of crude oil has been down played, in fact two separate articles I read about how crude oil is formed didn’t even mention dinosaurs by name. Now it says plant and animal bio mass material is the source of the crude oil, same process as far as being covered with soil and heated by the earth.

Evidently more people than just me had caught on to the flaw in their theory and an adjustment needed to be made. Now the emphasis is that the majority of the oil is being created from creatures and plant materials found in the oceans. Seeing how it is nearly impossible to determine just how much fish and aquatic life is present or has been in the oceans it makes the theory a lot more difficult to question.

So just what is the chemical makeup of crude oil? For the answer I went to my trusty Googles search engine. Carbon is about 84% , Hydrogen is about 14%, Sulfur, Nitrogen and Oxygen make up the remaining 2% or so. These are all very common elements in nature. I’m no scientist but I think carbon is found in everything or damn near everything if not everything. Water has two parts hydrogen to one part oxygen, good old H2O as we say for water. Nitrogen is an inert gas that is found in 78% of the earth’s atmosphere.

I’m not convinced by the latest scientific explanations on how crude oil is produced; the barrels of oil produced just seem to exceed the amounts of bio mass that would be needed for the chemical decomposition process and such. Even if the oceans could produce enough bio mass, is that mass being buried as described in the process? That still wouldn’t explain oil and gas reserves being found in places dead in the middle of the United States, far away from the oceans, like North Dakota and Wyoming.

I have to believe that there is some other process taking place other than what has been given to us as the explanation.

Our bodies create oil, go a couple days without bathing or showering and see just how oily your skin and hair becomes. We consume water so that would provide the oxygen and hydrogen, other foods provide the carbon, nitrogen is in the air we breathe, we take into our bodies all the elements needed to create oil, and guess what, our bodies create oil.

I think what we have is that the water, carbon and other elements in the earth are being converted through a process that we have yet to determine how it works. Rather than admit we don’t know the exact process the scientists just come up with a theory that they can wrap their heads around and push it on down to us folks who don’t have a formal education in science. Who are we to question them?

I’m just a common man who likes to think, that is who I am. I don’t believe in the “big bang” theory and that this earth was created from nothing in some big explosion millions of years ago. There are just too many things about this earth that are to complex that could not have happened by accident in some explosion of nothing. I believe this earth was created by a higher power, call it God or Devine Being or whatever your religion has named it, the earth just is too complex to be an accident that “happened” in my opinion.

In that complexity is the process that creates oil from readily available common elements, we have discovered the oil; just we haven’t discovered the process that creates it.

Don’t look for the earth to run out of oil anytime soon, it just isn’t going to happen. As long as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur and nitrogen are still available the earth will continue to produce oil. There are plenty of old oil wells here in Texas that had been pumped dry back in the 50’s and 60’s and were capped off and abandoned, not surprisingly these wells have been looked at again recently and some are being put back into production. How did a dry well start producing oil again? My guess is the process of oil production never stopped in nature and when left alone for decades the oil reserve in the ground built back up.

I know my thoughts are not along the lines of conventional science but mine never have been, I never believed the dinosaur story and it looks like the ocean story is just as fishy as well.

Until next time,
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