Water is incredibly plentiful. Oil is incredibly plentiful too. Renews itself. Imaging paying $60 dollars for a barrel of water. Yet we do for oil.
What produces oil then? Just carbon under specific amount of pressure?
Cody's lab has a video where he grows algae in some bottles, in the video he heats some algae up with a torch that decomposes it into oil.
Thanks had a quick look and it looks convincing. I guess even if it were dinosaur juice you would have to admit blood and bone dont simply turn into petrol. Algae would likely be required to decompose and transmute the material into something else. So its algae under the earths crust? I wonder how durable the ecosystem is for the oil producing algae
A fair bit of research confirms various bacteria and geologic processes do it. It's one of the reasons they require capping oil wells after they are "exhausted." They refill and would begin leaking out if they didn't cap it.
No, it's to stop gasses from escaping
If you think a well is like a tank it's not... Oil trapped in rocks seeps back into main void releasing methane and other gasses.
This is why most wells have a flare to burn it off so it doesn't collect some where and explode. Landfills do the same thing. Plus it's not really healthy to breathe in. We actually flare off more natural gases than we use.
People do, and it's a lot more than 60 per barrel... bottled water
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