Debunking fuel conservation myths...

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Originally Posted by PhotoDu.de

Thomas Gold was a astronomy professor, not a geologist. http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicl...Gold.obit.html

"The debate still is raging on one of Gold's last, and most widely controversial, ideas: that oil and natural gas are formed not from decaying organic matter, as most scientists believe, but from geologic processes and continually well up to the surface from deep underground.

The presence of organic molecules in all petroleum deposits has long been taken as evidence for the biological origin of petroleum. Gold argued instead in his 1999 book The Deep Hot Biosphere that the organic molecules come from subterranean microbes that feed on petroleum deep in the Earth's crust. Gold's vision of a supply of oil and gas that is essentially inexhaustible drew intense criticism from petroleum geologists."

He didn't provide proof, he provided a different theory. This theory does not hold up under scrutiny.

You are cherry picking results, I am trying to looking at the scientific consensus.

Sorry for repeating myself again but I really would like an answer. Mngolfer, do you understand why air with more mass would retain heat better? Remember, I am talking about mass, not air pressure.

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Those petroleum geologists that criticized him were all bought out by big oil man.. Gold was the only one with the balls to stand up to them!

/standard conspiracy theorist answer