Oil Did Not Come From Dinosaurs

I never believed the claim that oil came from dinosaurs. It made about as much sense as 'the stork brings babies.' I can't remember if it was in any textbooks we were supposed to read in school, because I never read any textbooks in school.

I read a lot of books in school, mainly from the school library, but I never bothered with the official texts assigned in class. I was operating out of a default setting that adults and authority figures either didn't know what they were talking about or were lying.

Apparently, there are people who believed that the stork brought them their baby sisters and brothers. There are also people who believe, to this day I am told, that oil comes from dinosaurs.

Well, the truth is that nobody knows how oil was made. Nobody. There are many theories. Which means that the most educated people on our planet are still making guesses and don't know.

There are two main theories, one adopted by scientists in the West and one adopted by scientists in Russia and the Ukraine.

The Western theory is flawed because it can't explain oil bubbling to the surface that has not been subjected (as in Kuwait) to thousands of years of mountains pressing down on them. The Russian/Ukrainian theory, which stipulates a non-organic origin, suggests oil seeps through fissures in the earth's surface, can explain surface oil deposits.

The dinosaur 'theory' it turns out was based on an ad campaign by Sinclair Oil Company, whose mascot was, you guessed it, a dinosaur. Bet you didn't know Madison Avenue had it's own scientists, but it does.

There is an explanation that makes sense. It has to do with what we, today, do with waste. Especially waste we consider toxic or unhealthy. Think nuclear reactor waste. What do we do with it?

Here is where we get heretical. Imagine there existed on the planet civilizations far more advanced than ours. Oil would be one of the waste products they disposed of in the same ways that we dispose of waste today.

When anyone mentions a civilization more advanced than ours, and there is ample evidence to that effect, nay sayers bring out aliens and little green men.

Nonsense. No need of aliens.

There is evidence our planet produced intelligent life a billion years ago. This evidence is ignored because it does not fit any orthodox theory. The first intelligent civilization would have been underwater.

The next phase of civilization would have been amphibian. Our civilization, which begins officially with the Sumerians, may not even be the first mammalian civilization on the planet.

No need for aliens or little green men. It's all been home-grown.

The oil we use today is a waste product left behind by another civilization. It's called recycling.