| I don't really know enough about that to be able to comment. I will say though that my understanding was that it's a bit of a misconception that oil is made from dinosaurs. Or at least it's a massive over-simplification. But actually it's basically organic matter broken down into basic hydrocarbons. Fertile soil, for instance, is full of microbial life and would eventually become oil given time, pressure, and a little heat.
But the fact is, if people who have a much much better understanding of it than I do can't agree on the process by which oil is created, I'm not really going to be able to give a definitive answer. All I know is that oil is a finite resource and before long it's going to become impractical for use on the scale we've been used to, and there will be consequences to that. |