On the heels of Climategate, we find ourselves lied to again by scientists. I have always had a pretty good B.S. detector and since I was a kid I knew something didnt smell right about the whole fossil-fuel, oil-comes-from-dinosaurs, etc theory. Even Sinclair Oil Corp. has a dinosaur in its logo. If you go to www.SinclairOil.com, you will even see a picture of a little girl holding a blow-up Sinclair dinosaur. I think his name is Dino.
My first sign that something just wasnt right was when I was growing up in western Pennsylvania. We had an oil well about 100 feet from the back door of our house. From the time of my earliest childhood memories until I graduated from high school and moved on, Mr. Eckstein, the man who owned the well, pumped oil from it eight hours a day, six days a week.
I remember in school, the teacher telling us about fossil fuels and how oil came from dinosaurs and plants rotting. I wanted to know, how many dinosaurs died in my back yard? To my estimation, Mr. Eckstein must be pumping out about a dinosaur a day! Thats a lot of dinosaurs! Was Saudi Arabia the center of the dinosaur world?
I seem to remember also seeing a film in school about some archeologists recovering actual dinosaur bones. They carefully brushed the dirt away from the fossils. At the end of the film, the teacher asked if we had questions. I asked, Why didnt they find oil around the dinosaur? I must have been such a pain to have as a student.
So here I am, many, many (sigh), many years later, and that fossil-fuel idea is still not setting well with me. I have a friend from the Ukraine and he knew I was interested in oil. He said to me one day (insert Ukrainian accent here), You Americans are so funny with your oil-comes-from-dinosaur stuff."
With a different perspective from him, I set off to find the truth. The most valuable thing I was taught in school was how to learn, something I think is missing in education now, but that is another whole article.
If you want to find answers, you first must know the right questions to ask. I did a thing called looking at history first. Over the last 150 years, how much oil did other countries produce? What I found interesting was that at the beginning of WWI, Russia was in a pickle because they found themselves cut off from the Middle East and could not get oil. Today, they produce more oil than Saudi Arabia and supply us with 17 percent of our oil.
Lucky for them, they had Dmitri Mendeleev in their history books. Its OK; I didnt know who he was either. What a brilliant man he was. He is best known for his work on the Periodic Table, arranging 63 known elements into a periodic table based on atomic mass, something he published in Principles of Chemistry in 1869. To demonstrate how brilliant this guy was, where gaps existed in the table, he predicted new elements would be found and predicted what their properties would be. He was correct and three of those elements were found in his lifetime and had the same properties he predicted.
He also investigated the thermal expansion of liquids and studied the nature and origin of petroleum. He didnt buy the fossil-fuel theory either. He felt that the oil developed far beneath the Earths surface, in the mantel, a very hot area 45 to 90 miles deep under the surface, has a very high pressure of about 30,000 atmospheres and has a lot of gasses. This combines to make hydrocarbons that push toward the surface, find the cracks in the crust and pool up and cool down below the surface. If this is correct, then oil is not a fossil fuel and it is a renewable energy source because the Earth is constantly making this substance.
To further back up this theory, several years ago a major oil company did a joint project in Russia where they drilled to a depth of 10,000 feet and struck oil. They took a sample and then kept drilling until they hit another pool at 22,000 feet. The samples from both were an identical match. This could only happen if the oil was being pushed from inside the Earth to the surface.
One more interesting thing: While we have been waiting for Saudi Arabia to run out of oil, they have wells that have pumped three to four times more than expected and show no signs of slowing down. It appears that the wells keep refilling. Wow, isnt that odd?
I think it is time to admit that our scientists have been telling us that the Earth is flat and for some time now the Russians, the oil companies and most of the rest of the world have known it is round.
Don Baldauf is a Republican Candidate for United States House of Representatives in Floridas District 13 and Chairman of the non-profit group FloridaOil.org, a group that is not funded by any oil companies.
