Oil turns into life

[pcjunkie]

Your all wrong - sort of.

Oil came from Plankton - yes
Those plankton existed for 60 million years.
The oil we are using is that old.

Bacteria break down plankton into sugars and fats.
The fats bind to form colloids.
Some of them are taken back up, others remain on the ocean floor as saturated oils.
They eventually get pressure cooked and that pressure separates the water from the fats and oils. The heating actually breaks it down into gas. Think about it.

Crude oil Ch18
Diesel CH14
Petrol CH12
Propane CH8
All made in a pressure cooker - a cracker.
So basically yes - algae and plant matter / bacteria and anything made of carbon would have settled on ocean floors but bacteria broke it down into fats and proteins and sugars first. We are using 1% of what existed over those 60 million years the rest having been recycled.

As for the original post. Crude oil is full of toxins from minerals that were also deposited at the same time. Some is nasty - some is sulphates. Oil breaks down into many things given its C structure it can take on almost any form and bind with almost any other species on the periodic table.

Benzine is the worst of them but PAH is also as bad. Crude oil does not for a basis for life.

Life came before oil - long before!

The biggest chains of Carbon are made from organic life - CH6 is the heaviest natural compound of C and H you will find everywhere. Anything longer than that - starches, sugars, cellulose, oils, fats all were made organically.

[brian334]

Where did the original carbon, hydrogen and oxygen come from?
I say it comes from inside the earth.

[brian334]

If dead stuff turns into oil, than dead stuff and oil should have the same chemical composition. All of the minerals in life should be in oil.

[brian334]

Are there meteors mixed in with the oil? If the oil formed at the bottom of the ocean than there should meteors mixed in. When was the last time some one pumped a meteor out of a oil well? 

[ResinRat2]

I was just curious if anyone can point to a link that references an experiment that took dead organic material, subjected this material to the theoretical pressure and conditions that it was thought were required to form oil, and then actually obtained synthetic oil as a chemical product?

Please post it here for our reference. Thanks.

RR2