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jamesbeil t1_jeefpzx wrote

Reply to comment by RuinLoes in US puts Italy-sized chunk of Gulf of Mexico up for auction for oil drilling by capcaunul

I think u/d3sylva must be one of the nutcases who buy the abiotic hydrocarbon hypothesis. I can't find the page at present, but there's a lovely late-nineties-style page floating around suggesting that oil is infinitely renewable and it's all produced by bacteria in the mantle anyway.

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RuinLoes t1_jeeii2j wrote

Of course there are conspiracy theorists that think that bacteria can live in high pressure magma. I bet they cite bacteria living near hydrothermal vents as evidence, right?

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