On Jun 24, 8:23 pm, cavelamb himself wrote:
Everyone talks about our terrible dependency on oil -- foreign and
otherwise -- but hardly anyone mentions what it is. Fossil fuel, all
right, but whose fossils? Mostly tiny plants called diatoms, but quite
possibly a few Barney-like creatures went into the mix, like
Stegosaurus, Brontosaurus and other giant reptiles that shared the
Jurassic period with all those diatoms. What we are burning in our cars
and keeping our homes warm or cool with is, in other words, a highly
processed version of corpse juice.

I wonder about that. Just how many dead dinosaurs did it take
to create the gazillions of barrels of known oil reserves (or whatever
the big number is)?
Around ten years ago some scientists in the Ukraine tested a
theory that's been bouncing around awhile that says that oil can be
formed deep in the earth by heat and pressure as a reaction between
water and limestone. Those Ukrainians did that: they mixed water and
dolomite (limestone) and subjected it to terrific pressure and heated
it, and got something pretty close to crude oil out of it. Limestone,
I know, is made up of diatoms' skeletons.

As far as biofuel goes, I'm willing to donate some belly fat if
I can get a tankful of gas out of it. Or we could distill some of the
baloney from alternative energy group discussions and get almost
unlimited fuel.

Dan