How much oil actually is left?

[Robert W]

Do you think experts know? Watch the video and see if they know.

I posted on a thread today about the Deep hot biosphere. If you truly are interested in oil, that book explains how it keeps showing up.

 

[1srelluc]

All of it.

According to the dems of the 70s we were were supposed to be bone dry in 2011.

1976

We need to have a realization that we’ve got about 35 years worth of oil left in the whole world. We’re gonna run out of oil. — Jimmy Carter, U.S. president

Carter made that prediction in 1976 when he was running for president. 35 years came and went in 2011 and the world is not beginning to run out of oil.

Another climate/energy scare put to rest.

 

[Captain Creeper]

There are millions of barrels added each day. Don't worry about it. Worry about all the far-left scum that has slithered into America and into positions of authority.

 

[JohnDB]

If magic were to happen and every new vehicle, truck, barge, containership, tanker and etc was made to run on something other than petroleum products...

We, on this planet, will continue to need more and more petroleum.
Peak oil usage is always at least 30-50 years away from a magic event. That's when it finally will begin to level off....and be static for a long time (another 10-15 years...before it will SLOWLY taper off...

That's the reality we are living in.

 

[toobfreak]

Do you think experts know? Watch the video and see if they know.

I feel confident abiotic oil occurs, in fact, I believe the biotic production of oil through the breakdown of plants is just a parallel process that occurs at shallower depths to the more common natural process the Earth does at great depths. Unfortunately, it will become increasingly difficult and expensive to find and like the Buffalo, we can't just keep sucking it forever, and we need oil products for our civilization, therefore, I'm glad I lived in the happy boomer years and am not growing up today to face an uncertain and bleak future where it seems certain that we cannot sustain 8 billion people on the planet.

Maybe this is why we haven't found any civilizations out in the universe.

 

[Natural Citizen]

I feel confident abiotic oil occurs, in fact, I believe the biotic production of oil through the breakdown of plants is just a parallel process that occurs at shallower depths to the more common natural process the Earth does at great depths. Unfortunately, it will become increasingly difficult and expensive to find and like the Buffalo, we can't just keep sucking it forever, and we need oil products for our civilization, therefore, I'm glad I lived in the happy boomer years and am not growing up today to face an uncertain and bleak future where it seems certain that we cannot sustain 8 billion people on the planet.

Maybe this is why we haven't found any civilizations out in the universe.

I've alway been a believer in the abiotic oil theory myself...

 

[toobfreak]

I've alway been a believer in the abiotic oil theory myself...

Well, like the video points out, we have already discovered beaucoup hydrocarbons in places like Saturn's moon Titan, where the only possible source of it is abiotic.

I mean, it stands to reason that if hydrocarbon is so easy to produce that plants can make it just by dying, how surprising would it be to find a condition and process in the deep mantle that duplicates the result through a not-too-dissimilar process of heat, pressure, and carboxylation?