More discussion about abiotic hydrocarbons.

The average depth of crude oil wells ranges between 5.5 to almost 8 km deep. (Energy Information Agency, part of Dept. of Energy). The deepest offshore oil well lies at 4.2 km below the drill deck.

The deepest coal mine in the world, an anthracite coal mine in the Donbas region of Ukraine, is 1.55 from surface elevation - surface = 0.2 km above sea level = 1.35 km below sea level.

Now you tell me how squished trees produced coal and the oil percolated downward. Does that make sense ?

The oil is produced deep down, below coal then steps from sub-bituminous coal through bituminous coal to anthracite coal, cooking off volatiles as it extrudes upward.

Abiotic hydrocarbons.

1 For what it's worth, since the time I was in high school, I have never believed that oil was produced by trees and animals being buried, rotting and transforming into oil. I don't pretend to know what does create oil, but that ain't it.

2 I also believe that "dark matter" exists only as fiction in the collective mind of the profession that doesn't know why the galaxies in the universe move in the fashion that is expected by Newtonian math. Also that "dark energy" similarly is the product of silly minds who think that one explosion can produce endless acceleration. In short, "follow the science" means to increasingly enstupidify yourself.

3 Yeah Bill; "fossil fuels" always seemed a bit daft to me also.

Richard Cronin started a big fight with this (or at least with some similar comments) on Facebook and while I have stayed out of it (it was a bunch of geochemists and I really was in over my head) but it was a fascinating read. A LOT of people no longer believe the fossil fuel business, apparently. These were the pros, not guys like us.

Yeah; Dark matter makes no sense to me either. An accounting gimmick so they can keep their obviously flawed worldview.

Hey, maybe Dark Matter is decayed and rotting vegetable matter turned into oil and coal?