Middle East Unrest Means Higher Gas Prices

This is a problem of our own making , by being hijacked by the enviro wackos we have not only let ourselves become dependant on foreign oil and sent hundreds of billions of dollars out of this country , we have and are keeping people unemployed . We have missed a chance to research and develope the cleanest and safest way to use and produce oil and coal , we need this until a time when another source can be found and produced cost effectivly .We need nuke plants , oil production , coal minning , oil shale capture and use . Just think of the jobs , good long time jobs we could have HERE , the dollars that would stay HERE . Use our brightest and smartest to develope the ways to do it . Set the standard to do it the best it can be done . Employ Americans not Saudis .

Hunter of WI 8:01AM February 18, 2011

"Instead, most scientists think oil started out as plankton and other tiny ocean critters, specifically their lipids—tough, stringy molecules that bacteria want to eat about as much as you enjoy dining on gristle or tendons. The idea is that, unlike the rest of the biologic material, lipids don't get gobbled up by bacteria, instead falling out to the bottom of the ocean, where they're covered by millions of years of sediment and eventually become oil. One researcher told LiveScience that some petroleum molecules actually resemble lipids found in cell membranes."

"Interestingly, there's a small faction of researchers who say petroleum isn't the fossil fuel everybody thinks. This theory—that the carbon precursor of oil has nothing to do with decomposing organisms, has existed deep within the Earth probably since the planet formed and seeps upward through the mantle—was popular in Soviet Russia, but doesn't match up with what we know about the composition of petroleum and where deposits are likely to be found. That said, recent research has shown that it's theoretically possible for certain hydrocarbons to be synthesized under conditions found in the Earth's mantle. So the mechanism is realistic, even if there's no evidence that petroleum is really being produced this way."

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/27/where-does-oil-come.html

Bill Hedges of MO 10:45PM February 17, 2011