If you know of a Kantowitz link to something relevant to this video, post it. I'll review and if I agree I'll leave it up. If I disagree I'll remove it.

Maybe. But what's the relevance of your statement?

@ could be he’s correct,there’s vast amounts of it down there 🤨

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It's a terribly deadly resource. Petroleum oil and it's by-products are responsible for killing and permanently injuring hundreds of millions of people. It's also responsible for killing untold millions of other animals.

@TheAutoChannel The product is the main reason people are warm and comfortable, have mobility and have enjoyed a steadily improving standard of living. Without this resource, humanity would return to a grinding, primitive life. The communists would love a reduction in standard of living.

@@lkearney7299 Ethanol can be used in place of gasoline and in place of petroleum oil for all other products. Ethanol can be produced anywhere in the world by anyone, which means that there would have been far fewer wars.

The word "petroleum" comes from the Latin "rock oil." This word alone should end the use of "fossil fuel" to include petroleum oil since rocks were not formed from dead living organisms.

That must be why the Saudis & numerous other wealthy nations in the Middle East have so much coal.

The problem with your analogy is that it implies that petroleum oil is beneficial and needed for the Earth to live. The truth is that petroleum oil is not needed, and many of its by-products are deadly.

@TheAutoChannel so do mosquitos believe our blood is necessary for humans to live or do they know blood is necessary for it to live? I've never spoken to one.

@@KennethC43 If you've never held a conversation with a mosquito then you have lived a very shallow life.

If you read the description I posted just below the video window you get more information and useful links to other resources.

@@TheAutoChannel Thanks

Prouty is answering a question about the misuse of the term "fossil fuel." He answered that question. He was not asked how petroleum oil is formed. It's possible that he didn't know how petroleum oil is formed, but it's irrelevant whether he knew or not. And, it's irrelevant because in the description above (just below the video window) I provided resources that do explain how petroleum oil is naturally created. Read the description and read the materials I referenced.

Hydrocarbons (alkanes are what interest fuel engineers) come from living things. Fossil fuels is the right term. Hydrocarbons are not minerals. These youtubers are mental retards.

@@MingusDew_Bebop Then where did all the hydrocarbons on other planets and planets' moons come from? science.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/saturn/saturn-moons/titans-surface-organics-surpass-oil-reserves-on-earth/ www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/energy/2017/12/05/new-energy-source-tiny-moon-circling-saturn-has-more-oil-and-gas-than-earth/920299001/

​@@schmidth Given the temperature conditions on Titan, along with the absence of oxygen, it's not surprising that there could be a difference between hydrocarbons on Earth and hydrocarbons on Titan (or Mars). However, your insertion of the difference between the hydrocarbons of Earth and Titan isn't relevant to the discussion that takes place on this message board. Arguing, as some do, that hydrocarbons can only be produced from the decayed remnants of previously living organisms is belied by the fact that hydrocarbons (regardless of their complexity) can be found on space bodies that have had no detectable forms of life. Petroleum oil (crude oil) is not produced from the fossils or materials of previously living organisms. It is produced due to the intense heat and pressure placed on minerals deep beneath the surface of the Earth. The same is true for bituminous and sub-bituminous coal.

@@schmidth Prove what? Do you deny there's a vast difference in temperature between Earth and Titan? Do you deny that there's no oxygen on Titan? And you want me to write a book on the subject, why? There are already several great books that prove petroleum is created from the extreme heat and pressure exerted on minerals deep underground.

Do you think so? I’m genuinely curious

You're correct that more people should watch this video, but this video has been watched 878,000 times, not 52,000 times.

Shalom - The use of the phrase "fossil fuel" as related to petroleum oil was/is meant to pretend that there is a unique and very limited supply. It may very well be accurate to say that in the mid-to-late 1800s geologists and some others did not know the extent of oil availability around the world. However, by the very early 1900s, The British, French, and Americans knew there was lots of oil in the Mideast, and the French knew there was lots of oil off the coast of Indochina (now called Vietnam). This is why the French were so intent on recovering their Indochina colonies after the Second World War. Nonetheless, predictions about "Peak Oil" (even before it was called Peak Oil) had been made for many decades before M. King Hubbert, and all predictions of oil's extinction have been false. To me, the fact that he worked for Shell Oil, and was then a professor at both Stanford University and UC Berkeley, proves he was a stooge for the oil industry and their machinations to drive up oil prices. It was known, or strongly surmised that there was lots of oil in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Brazil. Both were confirmed. It's also been long known that supposedly dry oil wells now have oil again. This is due to the fact that oil continues to be produced underground by the same natural conditions that have always produced petroleum oil. Shale oil is too expensive, too dirty, and unnecessary. Ethanol and methanol should replace many of the needs for oil.

@TheAutoChannel , thank for the info. I was not aware.

He didn't lie to you.

Gasoline causes gumming, not ethanol (alcohol). If you pour some rubbing alcohol on your countertop and let it dry, you'll notice it dries completely clean. Alcohol is used to clean sensitive electronic, such as video heads. If alcohol caused gumming it would destroy the video heads.

Carter Administration? Hahahahahahaha.

Wrong. Less land is used today to grow far, far more corn than in the 1920s through 1990s (before the enactment of the Renewable Fuel Standard) Read my reports on this: BAM! Closing the Door to the Food vs. Ethanol Fuel Argument www.theautochannel.com/news/2021/08/24/1037055-bam-closing-book-food-vs-ethanol-fuel-argument.html SLAM! Shutting the File on the Tyler Lark Anti-Ethanol Study www.theautochannel.com/news/2022/03/13/1117416-slam-shutting-file-tyler-lark-anti-ethanol-study.html

We have more water than oil. Under the surface of the Earth there is 3 to 4 times as much water as there is on the surface. But that's not to say that we will run out of oil.

@TheAutoChannel who knows what's underneath bet you it as much as water

@@HDSME You want to bet me? You don't even have the courage to identify yourself, how are you going to bet me?