Umm, Isn't this a news item rather than an opinion piece? Not sure what its doing on OLO.

Yes a news item, but perhaps reinforcing the now widely held opinion, that oil is not actually dead dinosaurs, but came with the rest of the matter that formed the planet.

The more we learn, the more we learn we don't know, & the more of the pet theories of many are shown to be false.

At least the fool notion that the amount of CO2 in the air controls the temperature of the planet, is not likely to be around as long as the old theories of how oil & coal were formed.

Actually its old news; scientists and anyone with an open mind not infected by either peak oil or AGW pathologies knew that Titan has many more hydrocarbons than Earth; and Titan never had dinosaurs or ancient forests:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/02/14/2162556.htm

What Titan does have is an extremely molten and active core which like Earth's molten core, probabaly causes hydrocarbons to be created and moved towards the surface.

Peak oil and population pressure are merely other sides to the misanthropy of AGW and have no bearing on fact.

Beautifully put cohenite,

I’m not sure what the thrust of this article is other than a very obtuse attempt to keep oil in all forms in the public eye.

It staggers me that so many missed out on even basic physics or chemistry. Perhaps Mendelyev’s periodic table should be circulated just so we all know that all matter in the universe is explained by physics standard model and quantum physics.

I suppose they could be discounted on the basis that they have only proved accurate to 10 to the power of 24!

When we look at the size that the dinosaurs "evolved" to it is not hard to realize the there was no end of food for them which came from a planet rich with Co2, and that shows we have only scratched the surface as far as crude oil goes, there is PLENTY left but in the interest of high prices oil companies we tell you "there not much left you know".

Speaking of keeping oil in the public eye, how about this from the normally Conservative Dallas Morning News

“A group of scientists, scholars and energy experts is meeting this week at the University of Texas to discuss what they see as an impending global decline in oil production. That would mean higher prices, more conservation, an emphasis on alternatives and lots of lifestyle changes. That’s not something people want to hear – or that politicians are inclined to talk about…”

I guess that bowser on Titan is looking more and more viable eh Cohenite!

I think the tongue was well in truly in the cheek when this article was posted, it is nearly Christmas after all and a little humour sometimes goes along way.