[lbo-talk] Oil Is A Renewable Resource! Take That, You Peaksters!

[Chuck]

mike larkin wrote:
> http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn10152005.html
> 
> "And increasingly, I don't believe we're about to run
> out of oil. I hang my hat on the views of Dr.Thomas
> Gold (founding director of Cornell University Center
> for Radiophysics) as outlined in his 1999 book, The
> Deep Hot Biosphere.
> 
> Gold's view, supported by many well qualified people,
> is that oil doesn't come from dead dinosaurs and
> kindred organic matter. Gold argues strongly that oil
> is a "renewable, primordial soup continually
> manufactured by the Earth under ultrahot conditions
> and tremendous pressures. As this substance migrates
> toward the surface, it is attached by bacteria, making
> it appear to have an organic origin dating back to the
> dinosaurs." Oil, Earth's renewable resource! Ethanol
> is an attractive alternative, as Brazil is proving.
> But ethanl will be a tough sell here, so for the time
> being I'll stay with the winning side."

Did Cockburn really write this bullshit? Wow, I just lost a bunch of 
respect for him. This is like some intelligent lefty writer drinking the 
9/11 Kool Aid.

Or maybe Cockburn has been listening to too much Alex Jones and George 
Noory?

The idea that oil is "replenished" by geophysical processes has been 
debunked by a number of people. One obvious refutation of this theory is 
the fact that old oil wells are not filling up with this oil from fields 
in the hollow Earth. The big oil industry news today was the disocvery 
of a potentially huge oil deposit deep under the Gulf of Mexico, not a 
replenishing source in Texas, Oklahoma or in the oil fields first tapped 
a century ago.

Chuck