THE TRUTH ABOUT OIL

 

Here’s the Good Oil

You want the truth about oil? Here it is!

By Ken Ring - Long Range Forecaster and Former Maths Teacher

Take a seed which is no bigger than a grain of rice. Plant it in the ground. Eventually, you will have a tree. The tree will bear fruit. The many generations of fruit from the one tree, from the one seed, which can be mechanically squeezed into vegetable oil or the oil from fruits, by the bucketful, is well known.

In the case of an olive tree, an enormous amount, perhaps a hundred years’ worth from the one tree, from the one seed. What made the oil?

Oil is a natural substance that forms automatically by forces and pressures in the Earth’s mantle. It is virtually everywhere if you can drill deep enough to tap it. Almost all hydrocarbons are produced by the earth crust. Oil and gas are not fossil fuels. They are abiotic and come from bacteria or phytoplankton. Some dry oil wells are refilling.

The myth of fossil fuels has been exploited by climate alarmism. The fossil fuel idea was only to promote scarcity which kept the prices high.

Oil and renewable resource are not words that often appear in the same sentence. Since the economies of entire countries ride on the fundamental notion that oil reserves are exhaustible, any contrary evidence would arguably turn the world view upside down.

If oil is not finite then the price should come down, the panic to find alternatives would be over and in the realization that oil is harmless to the environment, the first casualty would be the international banking system, backed up by the cost of the US dollar which in turn is governed by the cost of oil.

Volcanoes are mostly under the sea and if it were not for undersea volcanoes there would be no land. NZ was formed, as was Iceland, by an alpine fault jumping out of the sea. Pacific atolls sit astride tectonic faults, because that is their origin, which is why bits of land poking out of the ocean like Tuvalu rise and sink again like nature's elevators.

Fault lines are also where the biggest oil reserves are being found. Oil is formed in the heat of volcanism, which is why oil consortiums search the tectonic joins first.

There are oil-feeding bacteria of all kinds: those that eat the oil rapidly and those that degrade the petroleum very slowly, a wide variety. These bacteria work as a team. Some digest the big hydrocarbon molecules of oil generating much shorter chains of carbon; other bacteria consume these shorter chains. It is a pac-man-like food chain similar to the world of fish, where the bigger species eat the smaller. At the termination of this teamwork, the oil has completely disappeared – only remains of water and carbon dioxide are left. Refineries take the crude oil and kill the microbes.

There is no such thing as an "environmental catastrophe" such as an oil leak from a tanker. The microbes in the oil, if left alone, would soon completely clean up the beaches. But each spill is alarmist nonsense, and the published pictures of birds covered in oil is just green propaganda, designed to evoke emotional responses in the population.

If this sounds strangely familiar, CO2 was accused of the same villainy. CO2 from the atmosphere is consumed by trees, which is how they get to grow. A molecule of carbon (from CO2) is added to a molecule of water which makes a carbohydrate molecule; hence the name carbo-hydr-ate, and which is the building block of nature. Burning firewood releases the CO2 back to the air. The atmosphere is always CO2 deficient. In the distant past before vegetation, the air was CO2-rich. Along came plants and grabbed it. When so-called fossil fuels are burned, CO2 is returned to the point of origin, the atmosphere.

Oil was known to be out at sea when native populations told of it drifting onto beaches, which gave oil companies clues on where on the coast to search. Such was the case at Taranaki, where oil washed up on the beach in pre-colonial times.

The use of oil for fuel is very old. The Romans and Canadian Indians used pitch to waterproof their canoes, as did Noah, according to the Bible. Petroleum is a Latin word, and various bitumen products were used to seal leaky Roman pipes, and oil was burned as in lamps, before whale oil.

If we can positively establish that the amount of oil being returned to or remaining in the earth equals or exceeds the amount extracted from it by the number of humans using it then any oil “problem” disappears.

To assess the oil reserves, we must estimate the starting number of barrels of oil in the ground and how much we have so far used. We will never know either answer. So why do so many alarmists paint a doom-filled picture?

Suppose can try to estimate what we have so far used. Global oil use = 31.5 billion barrels per year. One barrel oil = 42 U.S. gallons. One cubic foot = 7.48 U.S. gallons. One cubic mile = 147.2 billion cubic feet. So, the volume of oil consumed by mankind annually = (31.5 x 42) / (7.48 x 147.2) = 1.2 cubic miles of oil per year. The volume of the earth is 260,000 million cubic miles.

If by volume a millionth of the interior of the earth contains oil, there is enough to last 260,000 years. But if 1/250,000 of the earth is oil, which is only about the volume of the Mediterranean Sea and which does not seem at all unreasonable, at the present rate of consumption we can drive our SUVs around for another million years.

You read it right, one million years.

(Extracted from "The Great Global Warming Hoax", by Ken Ring, see website, or Amazon)

Before readers criticize Ken Ring for not having a science degree, they should take a look at this list of Uneducated Leaders or this list of Scientists without Science Degrees then think again before putting him down. Or you could cast your eye over the Wikipedia List of Autodidacts. Oh, you don’t know what an autodidact is? Well, you can become one by finding out for yourself.