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fultonfish
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Oil takes tens of millions of years to produce, from organic material put under intense heat and pressure. The process would never replace the 85 billion barrels per day used by the world now, much less the projected demand in the future. We face a future of walking, bicycling, more localized living, more communal solidarity, and humility. Those things don’t sound bad from a Catholic perspective!
Actually, there is a lot of “old oil” that predates the fossils and organic matter. The earth is a massive fireball and down deep there is a massive reactor that creates oil continuously and that bubbles up through cracks in the various rock layers in the earth.
We see this when played out oil fields start filling up again.
Interested readers can research the R-U Theory. [There are other names for it as well.] The Russians use this approach in their explorations.
There is just so much that we are learning about the planet Earth. We know very little, actually. Consequently we are surprised all the time when we discover new things. New species. New mineral deposits. New things are being discovered all the time.
12 men walked on the moon. Armstrong and Aldrin, the first two, were there for more than two hours. Whereas only two men have been to the deepest part of the ocean and what they saw frightened them so badly that they only stayed 20 minutes. Those two who descended to the Marianas Trench, only seven miles deep, were shocked and stunned by the new life forms, the openings in the earth spewing minerals and heat. [The “smokers” are so hot, they feared the heat would melt their submarine.]