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Is oil a renewable resource?

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Originally posted by: Rogodin2
This is COMMON KNOWLEDGE
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That was my reason for creating this poll. It's 44% proven that the cross-section of this forum doesn't have ANY COMMON KNOWLEDGE.

Wind and sun don't run out unless you're Descartes-but then again he couldn't see.

Are one of the same?

Rogo
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Actually, more like 44% are taking one technical perspective on the question and 55% are taking another, yet we're all on the same page. That gratiously leaves 1% for your uninformed.
 
Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
MODS, please ban this troll ... he's worthless
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Fixed. 😉


Originally posted by: Rogodin2

The second reason for my responses is that I've seen enough people on this forum to understand that their world view is set in concrete. My method of 'jackhammering' is nasty-but I think it's necessary.

Rogo
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Do you not yet understand that you aren't going to change anyone's mind by acting like a pompous ass, talking down to anyone who disagrees?
As my grandma says: "You catch more flies with honey than vinegar."

In either case, this forum isn't intended as a place for you to run your environmental crusade. P&N maybe, but definitely not here.

Go away.
 
Originally posted by: MrPickins
Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
MODS, please ban this troll ... he's worthless
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Fixed. 😉


Originally posted by: Rogodin2

The second reason for my responses is that I've seen enough people on this forum to understand that their world view is set in concrete. My method of 'jackhammering' is nasty-but I think it's necessary.

Rogo
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Do you not yet understand that you aren't going to change anyone's mind by acting like a pompous ass, talking down to anyone who disagrees?
As my grandma says: "You catch more flies with honey than vinegar."

In either case, this forum isn't intended as a place for you to run your environmental crusade. P&N maybe, but definitely not here.

Go away.
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One thought I had was that framing the poll without a opinion invites people to choose the renewable option..somehow

why would that be so?

Boris
London
 
Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
Originally posted by: Rogodin2
This is COMMON KNOWLEDGE
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That was my reason for creating this poll. It's 44% proven that the cross-section of this forum doesn't have ANY COMMON KNOWLEDGE.

Wind and sun don't run out unless you're Descartes-but then again he couldn't see.

Are one of the same?

Rogo
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Actually, more like 44% are taking one technical perspective on the question and 55% are taking another, yet we're all on the same page. That gratiously leaves 1% for your uninformed.
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is it a trick question because the term resource implies utility and rate of use

in this respect the yes branch are wrong...

on reflection the poll is flawed because it should be couched in a manner that makes the user decide whether resource depletion is a issue when comparing oils rate of use vs rate of creation

Boris
London
 
Technically, yes, oil renews after a few million years.
Practically, no, it doesn't renew fast enough.
 
Glad you all enjoyed it 😉

Pragmatically/Scientifically it's not.

I honeslty didn't intent it to be a flame.

It's just strange to work on huge cicrles, understanding that you personally won't eat the food that you're harvesting (besides the corn we'd skewer on long wire and drop into the steam upshoot).

I used to take naps on 300bushels of wheat 40 feet off the ground (on my John Deere 8800 combine).

I used to handpump 90 gallons of diesel into 5 combines every morning at 7:00 (just when the dew lifts). 🙂

My grandfather was the one that made my brother and I work 200 acre been field for nightshade when we were 9.

Rogo
 
Rule 37,892 of ATOT: If you make a poll with an obvious right answer and an obvious nonsensical answer, at least half the people with side with the nonsense answer just for the heck of it.
 
Originally posted by: Rogodin2
This is COMMON KNOWLEDGE
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That was my reason for creating this poll. It's 44% proven that the cross-section of this forum doesn't have ANY COMMON KNOWLEDGE.

Wind and sun don't run out unless you're Descartes-but then again he couldn't see.

Are one of the same?

Rogo
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(1) Technically oil is a renewable resource, however effectively due to the time-frame required to produce more it might as well not be as far as the human race is concerned.

(2) This leads me to one inescapable conclusion .... OP is a troll!
 
Originally posted by: everman
Rule 37,892 of ATOT: If you make a poll with an obvious right answer and an obvious nonsensical answer, at least half the people with side with the nonsense answer just for the heck of it.
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This is also true! 😛
 
It seems that it is renewable and a natural process within the Earth, but the rate it renews is probably not as fast as we would like/need it to be.
 
heh. That article I posted got slammed. It was done by one of my college professors. I thought it was interesting but don't really know its validity.
 
It's like Tiberium in Command and Conquer, that sh1t grows back eventually. Make sure Yuri does not steal it!!!

Mmm mammoth tanks.
 
I haven't read this thread, but I think the answer is that we don't know yet. The commonly understood origin of oil appears to be incorrect. We're finding oil in places where oil shouldn't exist, in rocks that have never seen the surface of the planet(and therefor have had no contact with carbonaceous organisms).

We know that oil and tar-like hydrocarbons exist in space.

We think there could be an additional 50,000 billion barrels of oil hidden in the United States, we just haven't been looking in the right places or drilling deep enough.

Pretty interesting stuff.
 
Yes, oil is renewable. Your decomposing body will probably become oil someday, but it won't benefit you much. 🙁
 
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