re: Oil and gas folks please explain the whole oil /gas scarcity thing to me

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Hasn’t stuff been dying and rotting for millions of years? So how are we running out of oil and gas? I’m no petroleum engineer but it seems unlikely to run out.

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Hydrocarbons are formed biotically and abiotically. This is proven by the abiotic hydrocarbons that exist on other planets like Saturn and Uranus and prolifically on some of their moons. It's also proven on Earth through the chemical process known as Sabatier reaction.

But don't allow the media to create anxiety about energy shortages. We will never have insufficient energy.

The danger is not the lack of energy. The danger is the suppression of human creativity to access the energy.

For example the strong nuclear force between neutrons and protons in the atom has enough energy to lift 175 pounds of mass. We have the know-how to access that energy via nuclear fission.

The only potential barrier to energy is ourselves.