Peak Oil Redux Part III

From 06/30/05 Peak Oil? Not! Part Deux:

More fodder for the "Peak Oil" sheep herd... It is well known that a diesel engine will run on almost anything, including used cooking oil with a small amount of alcohol additive. If you don't mind your exhaust smelling like McDonalds french fries, this is the way to go. MSN: Biodiesel, Run Your Diesel on Vegetable Oil

In addition, new and used plant oils (vegetable oils) can both be used as diesel engine fuel. You can convert an existing diesel to run on straight vegetable oil easily.

You can use free recycled used cooking oil from restaurant fryers and prevent that oil from being dumped down drains and sent to landfills after it's short term use in fryers.

Restaurants and fast food chains, actually PAY to have grease from their traps and used cooking oil hauled away. You can go get it from them for FREE. This is not biodiesel - just STRAIGHT, VEGETABLE OIL as fuel for your diesel engine.

And yes the engine will still run on regular diesel after conversion. Check outPLANTDRIVE for more details. I have blogrolled their blog on my sidebar under Favorite Places.

Many thanks to a certain Canadian Principal Enlightener & Purveyor of Darkness for pouring more salt on the "Peak Oil" theory carcass...

Dyson & Gold's theory that petroleum is a bioproduct of deep biological activity in the Earth. That is to say its origins are Abiogenic rather than Biogenic.In particular, bacteria of the Archaea domain, which thrive at temperatures as high as 100-150 degrees C and do not depend on photosynthesis. These bacteria probably predate all surface life forms. (We are the aliens!)

Subsequently, Oil is not the converted remains of ancient life after a few million years of decomposition. It is readily available, self replenishing and in an inexhaustable supply. Interesting codicil, so far no one has ever been able to come up with the chemical reactions needed to form petroleum from decaying organic matter. In other words, no one can prove that oil is created in a Biogenic process.

The authors present compelling evidence that is hard to refute citing the fact that 84 barrels of oil were drilled from a depth of 6 kilometers in a purely granitic and igneous region of Sweden where remains of living organisms should have had no access whatsoever.

The authors findings are also supported by Russian petroleum exploration geologists in the 1950's who discovered vast quantities of hydrocarbons in the Ukraine where no sedimentary oil bearing strata exists.

Academician Professor Vladimir B. Porfir'yev, senior petroleum exploration geologist for the U.S.S.R. in 1956 states "The overwhelming preponderance of geological evidence compels the conclusion that crude oil and natural petroleum gas have no intrinsic connection with biological matter originating near the surface of the Earth. They are primordial materials which have been erupted from great depths."

40 years ago the technology did not exist to extract oil at 30,000 feet. In Australia there is an "oil crisis" every 15 years which is then quickly replaced by replenished reserves.

These reserves have been tapped from the same oil wells since the 1950's and still the media headlines scream about the last drop of crude within 5 years. Makes one wonder about the sustainability of the fields in the Middle East and elsewhere doesn't it?


For those who want to be in the know and not misled by the media and big oil propaganda machine, I recommend snagging a copy before the Orwellian control freaks have this one burned and deep sixed.

The Deep Hot Biosphere : The Myth of Fossil Fuels
by Freeman Dyson, Thomas Gold
Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: Springer (May 1, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN: 0387952535


Ok, so wells in Australia have as many lives as a cat does. Ever talk to a wild catter about the wells in Signal Hill, CA. or any other existing field?

Perhaps most wells in the world replenish themselves. This raises serious questions as to crude oil being a finite supply.

Ask yourself why we have not developed alternative bio diesel, such as diesel from plant matter or vegetable oil, to its logical capacity?

Easy answer, the sisters and oil suppliers don't want it that way. Read the book and you will think twice about the hypothesis of "peak oil".

Better yet, buy an old Mercedes diesel, convert it and then laugh at the chumps tanking up at $3 a gallon. At least for local driving you will be driving for free. Stay tuned, no clicking, more to come in Part IV.


$130 Oil Justified? No Way
Oil Price Redux
OIL: Demand, Production and Speculation
Peak Oil - The Myth, The Legend, The Fraud
Spreading "Peak Oil" Crack
"Peking" Oil, the Saudis and China
Peak Oil? Not!
Peak Oil? Not! Part Deux
Peak Oil? Not! - Update
Peak Oil Redux Part I
Peak Oil Redux - Part II
Peak Oil Redux Part III
Peak Oil Redux Part IV
Peak Oil Redux Part V
Peak Oil Redux Part VI
Peak Oil Redux Part VII
Peak Oil Redux Part VIII
The Blame for $135 a Barrel Oil
Blame it on Markman's Myopia or The Day They Burned Ol' Dixie Down - A "Peak Oil" Commentary


Another Peak Oil Cufuffle Series 

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