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Re: Image comments for Has it been that long
Posted by: Anon
Date: 04/02/2024 02:08AM
Crude oil doesn't come from dinosaurs. That claim was made up by a yank company and I forget why (someone told me once, where I live now I don't get to meet many scientists). It's a furphy.

Crude oil is made by natural gas, seeping up through the rock, that's attacked by bacteria. The sweat from that bacteria is crude oil. That's why it has a biological look about it (I assume that's under a microscope).

The meme was made by someone who doesn't keep up with science and, from the writing, either doesn't speak English very well or it was very late.

If you use the right bacteria on fresh grass clippings you start to get measurable amounts of crude oil in half an hour. It's so slow and labour intensive the drill crews are under no threat.

Synthetic oils are lubricants, made from vegetables last I heard, but don't suit all applications. To fully do without crude oil lubricants requires a complete overhaul of industry (not just motor vehicles) and that would first require prohibitive protective tariffs and import quotas set at 0, something the environmentalists, who have no technical or professional knowledge in industry, don't compute, so it's not happening.

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