How many dinosaurs died to produce our oil

[walterjay]

Has anyone ever thought about it? With all the oil in the earth did it all come from dinosaurs? If so how many did it take to produce all of our oil?

 

[Nick1994]

Oil did not come from dinosaurs lol.

 

[Vercingetorix]

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[Greasymechtech]

Amazon.com

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[jurko]

Oil is abundant in rocks deep below the surface. I heard or read somewhere that Russians drill over 30,000 feet deep and find plenty of oil.

 

[spasm3]

Has anyone ever thought about it? With all the oil in the earth did it all come from dinosaurs? If so how many did it take to produce all of our oil?

All of them.

 

[OVERKILL]

All of them.

You beat me to it, LOL!

 

[spasm3]

Actually there are theories that crude was formed more from plants and diatoms, algae, some of it before the dinosaurs were present. But who really knows for sure.

 

[OilUzer]

If dinosaur oil were synthetic and thicker, they would still be alive & running!

 

[JeffKeryk]

Our oil formed from the remains of marine plants and animals that lived millions of years ago.

Oil comes from solar energy. Plants are a very efficient solar panel.
Animals eat plants. And each other...
Add a couple of millions of years to the process and you can fill 'er up!

 

[OVERKILL]

Our oil formed from the remains of marine plants and animals that lived millions of years ago.

Oil comes from solar energy. Plants are a very efficient solar panel.
Animals eat plants. And each other...
Add a couple of millions of years to the process and you can fill 'er up!

Yes, it's primarily plant material. You can see the process in the coal seams actually.

An Underground Fossil Forest Offers Clues on Climate Change (Published 2012)

A vast expanse of fossilized trees more than 300 million years old — called a “botanical Pompeii” — could extend as much as 100 miles underneath southern Illinois.

www.nytimes.com

SUBTERRANEAN William A. DiMichele in the Springfield Coal. The dark mass is a coal seam; the lighter shale above is interrupted by a fossil tree stump

 

[wpod]

Rock oil.

 

[sloinker]

I was led to believe that coal was plant based and crude oil was from single celled sea organisms/plankton and algae.

 

[OVERKILL]

I was led to believe that coal was plant based and crude oil was from single celled sea organisms/plankton and algae.

"it's complicated"

Kerogen - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Upon heating, kerogen converts in part to liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons. Petroleum and natural gas form from kerogen.[1] Kerogen may be classified by its origin: lacustrine (e.g., algal), marine (e.g., planktonic), and terrestrial (e.g., pollen and spores).

 

[ZeeOSix]

If dinosaur oil were synthetic and thicker, they would still be alive & running!

Dinos couldn't take the "high temp, high shear" of that comet/asteroid ramming into the Earth.

 

[Job]

You’re thinking of whales. Oil comes from olives and beans.

 

[PandaBear]

None, mine come from hydrogen extracted from water via nuclear power

 

[OilUzer]

Dinos couldn't take the "high temp, high shear" of that comet ramming into the Earth.

That's right. Wouldn't the vii shear and produce lots of heat with such a heavy impact from comets?

Also iirc from school years, dinosaurs did a lot of short and quick movements and not much of extended runs due to their size. i.e. fuel dilution. They should have been named Synsaurs and producing very heavy synthetic single-grade oil with no vii. Sounds like it was a bad design! No wonder they are gone.

 

[Passport1]

The earth produces and reproduces crude petroleum. It is the ultimate renewable resource.

 

[dadto2]

The earth produces and reproduces crude petroleum. It is the ultimate renewable resource.

The problem is that we use the oil up exponentially faster then the Earth and make it.