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Old 03-20-2019, 10:11 PM   #267 (permalink)
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The problem with the 3rd opinion analogy is that opinion isn't evenly split on whether oil is formed via abiotic or biotic methods. It is more like 1:99 ratio.
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... and the fact that reality isn't determined by opinion.
Perhaps that wasn't the time to relate that story. It was on my mind at the time.

My point is more that there is a planetary budget of hydrocarbons, whether (ad argumentum) it's carbonaceous chondrite asteroids or plankton, and that we are wildly overspending it.
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