Since they have been extracting oil from the ground they have extracted one trillion barrels of oil from the ground (low number) and there is more than a trillion left in the ground today. I think that oil is abiogenic and will continue to be produced at the earth’s core as long as the earth exists. So my complaint is that since there is plenty of oil and will be plenty of oil in the future why is it so expensive?
Government has to know this and play along with oil companies as long as the oil companies give campaign money to political parties.
I’m sure that there wasn’t enough dinosaurs and plants to produce over two trillion barrels plus. They are consuming 80 million barrels per day times 365 days for the last twenty years. And they were using oil way before that. So start with that number and see what I mean, the numbers are staggering.
Well something to think about the next time you gas up.
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Well, first off, oil isn’t produced at the Earth’s core. Also, hard to get at, politics, trade agreements, not just from dinosaurs and please go read some books because dear God your stupid actually hurts.
Go breed with an exhaust pipe OB. The Earth isn’t going to keep making oil and certainly not as fast as we consume it. It’s so expensive because its one of the least efficient resources to produce
OB you’re playing the fool. Big time!
“I’m sure that there wasn’t enough dinosaurs and plants to produce over two trillion barrels plus” You’re sure?! We made it to over 7 billion humans in 150 000 years. The dinosaurs were around for HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS! They were also GIGANTIC… in case you hadn’t heard.
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Thank you, captian obvious!
The prices are high because everybody is willing to pay them.
If everyone in the western world took the bus/biked/walked for ONE WEEK and turned the heat off, it would be devastating enough to lower the price of oil drastically.
i agree with the rest of you. Op is seriously misinformed. I maintain my above statement however.
If absolutely everyone in the Western world were to public transit for a week, it probably *would* have a huge impact on the oil industry, but that idea is so impractical for so many reasons that it’s impossible.
Facts can be used to prove anything! 14% of all people know that. /homer
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The abiogenic origin of hydrocarbons has fallen greatly out of favour by most geologists. The prime suspect in the formation of hydrocarbons is ancient biomass not dinosaurs but anaerobic bacteria that feeds on plankton and plant matter that falls to the bottom of the ocean. Seal it in mud, wait for a few million years, take it out and voila hydrocarbons and it is finite so we can, and probably will, run out of it.
There are too many of us and we’re energy hogs. Particularly you OP so go and buy a bicycle.
I’m on the cyclists side.
What the hell? Please tell me you’re trolling. Even a litre of water costs more than a litre of concentrated refined, shipped from the middle east dinosaur juice. Gas is way cheaper than it should be. Eventual efficiencies may keep the price low but it could just as easily double and no one should complain. When it’s gone it’s gone, ain’t no more being made in our lifetimes.