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Cannonpointer » 04 Mar 2020 2:49 am » wrote: I don't know, and neither do you. That is what we were taught in school.

It is made of CARBON, which means it is the very stuff of life.

Tell me, what is your blood made of? It's made of its component parts - by your body's mechanisms, which component parts must be made available in order for your body to manufacture your blood. For all you and I know, the earth makes oil much faster than the model we were taught in corporate-government schools, and doesn't need trilobites to pull it off.

Remember as a kid in school, learning about the glorious Golden Gate Bridge? That bridge is no more special, in any way, than the Bay Bridge. But it belongs to private interests, and those private interests prepared and distributed lesson plans to government schools, specifically to market the bridge to future customers - to make it famous so that people would pay to cross it. You see,the other side of that bridge out of san francisco leads to muir woods, mount tam and sausilito - and not much else. The local traffic on that very profitable bridge accounts for only a fraction of its revenues - because you were INSTRUCTED, as a child, to visit that bridge.

Folks need to learn to think for themselves on major issues of the day. And sometimes, you need to embrace and respect your own ignorance.

In truth, you have no **** clue where oil comes from, and neither do I. But I DO know that there are veritable oceans of the stuff, and that it is only a "finite" resource in the most abstract usage of that term.