was Gold right?
Thomas Gold has a hypothesis that oil is not of biological origin; instead he holds that oil is formed by trapped pockets of methane and other such simple hydrocarbons that were formed at the same time the earth itself formed. Evidence from Eugene Island seems to bear his hypothesis out. If Gold is correct, then that means that there would also be oil on Mars and Venus, and that the chicken littles out there proclaiming the end of oil reserves are right out to lunch.
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