| Saw an article recently purporting that petroleum was not likely a product of breakdown over zillions of years, but rather a byproduct of gasses like CO2 trapped during the formation of the earth which through enormous pressure were chemically reacted into the long-chain hydrocarbons we love and adore. The pointy heads further asserted enough dead dinasours and plants could account for surface coal seams, they could not account for the massive ammounts of natural gas that originated around 20,000 feet underground, far deeper than any plants or animals ventured. Further stated they had recreated petroleum with CO2 under lab conditions that would exist at that depth. I'll look for a link to an article. So give the Hip a break, perhaps these CO2 pumpers are working off the pretense of that research and may brew us more natural gas eventually! |