There are no "fossil fuels”. Gas and oil do not come from squished trees. Go to Google Scholar and enter "Abiotic Hydrocarbons abiogenesis” and confine the search to 2021. Your computer screen will be flooded with papers of Serpentinization (producing Hydrogen) plus methanation of CO (& oil) via Fischer-Tropsch reactions and methanation of CO2 (& oil) via Sabatier reactions also producing methane and oil. All planets do the same.

How much ? Unimaginable! Most of it just spews out of hydrothermal vents or seeps out of the ocean floor, where the crust is thinnest.

And we have a hernia over natural gas ?

Methane vented at ground level is just decomposed by photodissociation in the upper atmosphere (MAK Khalil 1988).

1 Good points. Of course, they'll all be lost on the Climatistas.

2 "Peak oil" is necessary to the Gang Green to promote the "renewables" agenda. They would never admit that oil and gas are abiotic if smoking gun proof was presented.

Me, I don't know for sure but Richard certainly thinks so and he's a geologist.

3 It makes sense. If petroleum came from decomposed dinosaurs, as they used to believe, it WOULD all be gone by now.

4 Agreed. We keep finding new sources and old wells are often seen refilling. I've heard explanations for that but don't buy it without the oil being renewed.

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How much ? Unimaginable! Most of it just spews out of hydrothermal vents or seeps out of the ocean floor, where the crust is thinnest.