All my life I have heard that gasoline is a fossil fuel, a non-renewable resource. That crude oil is from decomposed dinosaurs and huge lush tropical swamps buried under layers of sedimentation. I have learned all of God's creation is a complete whole and balanced. A non-renewable is not consistent with God's design.
Large oil deposits have recently been found under igneous rocks. Since igneous rocks are formed from molten material (like lava), they would burn up the carbon based decaying matter before being entrapped under a layer of cooled molten material. The rock formations are dome shaped.
Oil is not compressible. It is a basic principle behind the invention of hydraulic lifts, car brakes, back hoes, and several thousand other devices. Oil from deeper in the earth being forced up under the igneous rock layer would create a dome shape. So how does oil come from deeper inside the earth?
As the North American tectonic plate rides up over the pacific plate, a veritable water highway is created between the two plates. Water at the ocean bottom would flow down this highway to the deep reaches under the earth. It would carry decaying matter with it as it went. As it reaches the hot regions deep underground the mixture would flash into basic atomic elements.
Carbon which doesn't like being alone grabs some hydrogen making itself a gaseous molecule. These super heated gases begin the trip back to the earth surface. Carbon likes big parties so it begins to combine into ever larger molecules. Once the molecule has at least five carbons it becomes liquid or oil.
As this oil is pushed ever upward it encounters an igneous layer. The uncompressible oil begins to bend the rock layer forming a dome. If the dome cracks, the oil squeezes through invading the sedimentary layers above. The formations where first discovered.
This is one theory. If not exactly correct, the evidence does suggest that oil is a renewable resource and not a decayed Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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