Re: replenishment

["William B. Ryan" <william_b_ryan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

To conserve digital space I've posted the full text of a recent interview
with Thomas Gold at http://www.geocities.com/new_economics/gold.htm

"...Why would that be unlikely, given the traditional view of oil forming
from organic matter in buried sediments?

"Because the oil is all the same, while the sediments in that region
are completely different: different ages, different materials. There's
no sedimentary material that is uniform throughout the region, that has
any coherence. And this just never struck him. His response was, 'In
geology we don't try and explain things - we just report what we see.'

"Hubbert's views changed the wealth of nations. The belief that oil would
run out, and that those with a source could always increase the price,
caused the early-'70s oil crisis. That, to my mind, is a completely stupid
attitude that shifted many billions of dollars away from some countries
and toward others.

"You clearly already had some sort of alternative model in mind.

"I knew something that, to this day, the petroleum geologists in this
country don't seem to know - that astronomical observations had detected
large amounts of hydrocarbons on various planetary bodies in our solar
system. We didn't have the very good results that we now have from Titan
showing seven different hydrocarbons. But I knew that there were perfectly
sound astronomical observations showing hydrocarbons to be common on
planetary bodies. So it seemed natural that there should be similar hydrocarbons
within the Earth, slowly seeping out."



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---- "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>      That there may be deeper pools of oil does not
> disprove the dinosaur or other biological origin theories
> and certainly does not make oil a "renewable" or
> "non-finite" resource, although it may suggest that
> there is more of it than many believe.
> Barkley Rosser