Oil is not a fossil fuel, and burning oil does not contribute to global warming. In fact, Peter J. Morgan writing in the Canadian Free Press, says that oil is a renewable resource and that the responsible policy would be to drill it aggressively and burn it cheerfully.
Stalin’s team of scientists and engineers found that oil is not a ‘fossil fuel’ but is a natural product of planet earth – the high-temperature, high-pressure continuous reaction between calcium carbonate and iron oxide – two of the most abundant compounds making up the earth’s crust. This continuous reaction occurs at a depth of approximately 100 km at a pressure of approximately 50,000 atmospheres (5 GPa) and a temperature of approximately 1500°C, and will continue more or less until the ‘death’ of planet earth in millions of years’ time. The high pressure, as well as centrifugal acceleration from the earth’s rotation, causes oil to continuously seep up along fissures in the earth’s crust into subterranean caverns, which we call oil fields. Oil is still being produced in great abundance, and is a sustainable resource – by the same definition that makes geothermal energy a sustainable resource. All we have to do is develop better geotechnical science to predict where it is and learn how to drill down deep enough to get to it. So far, the Russians have drilled to more than 13 km and found oil. In contrast, the deepest any Western oil company has drilled is around 4.5 km.
The hypothesis that oil is a fossil fuel was just that – a hypothesis. Global warming is also just a hypothesis. Both, according to Morgan, are false.
Morgan is no shill for conservative causes. In fact, he blames oil companies for perpetuating the myth that oil is a fossil fuel in order to drive up the price. He goes on to suggest that
Each of us in our own small way can now burn as much petroleum product as we can afford to put in our cars and boats, safe in the knowledge that (a) oil is never going to run out and (b) all the extra carbon dioxide we produce will not cause global warming, but will help plants, and hence food, to grow faster, thus helping to feed the billions!
And look for oil prices to settle back in at about $30 per barrel.
