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Old 24-08-2014, 05:06 PM   #15
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Just one article but there are plenty of dry academic papers you can wade through here and there...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogen...leum_origin...
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Surprisingly, the idea that oil comes from old biomatter, for instance, swamps and the like, is still a hypothesis...they don't actually know and haven't proved for sure what made (and possibly still makes) our oil reserves. ...
It's not a hypothesis mate, oil comes from ancient carbon based life forms.

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They could just be a natural part of planetary formation, as evidenced by the huge hydrocarbon reserves on Saturns moon Titan, which certainly hasn't had forests and swamps in the past to rot down and produce petroleum, and in the atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune....
You better prove that Titan has oil , or Saturn?

it's easy to say it may have ...hard to prove or disprove....


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It's a really interesting subject. But one thing is for sure...whatever oils source, we keep finding more and more of the stuff every year...
But not enough to match consumption rates, so it's declining.
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