My 5th grade teacher taught us that it absolutely did come from dinosaurs. I remember, because I remember asking her how that was possible, and if that is where it came from then why are we going to run out some day since there are so many ancient animals and people that have died. Couldn’t we use them to make the fossil fuel too if that is where it came from? She told me I had a very disturbing thought process and wouldn’t answer any more of my questions. Had the whole class treating me like I was weird for the rest of the year, all because I was trying to use my 5th grade logic and the math didn’t math, and she was offended I questioned her.
@@mtvntn American refers to the continent, the country is the United States; that is part of the dumbing down of the United States citizens. It’s done through the main stream news, and Hollywood. People just can’t see the forest for the trees.
My Grandfather leaned into the dinosaur thing even further by telling me, when I was a teenager, that different types of oil came from different types of dinosaurs. 20w-50 was from a Brontosaurus, 10w-40 was T-rex, 10w-30 was a Stegosaurus, etc.. He said that's why some engines were louder than others. It depended on which type of dinosaur was growling inside.
One part you left out was back in 1977 Chevron Oil ran a series of animated commercials using dinosaur's becoming oil with the tag line "some creature gave it's all " for your tank of gas.
th-cam.com/video/w0B0t_4MTuM/w-d-xo.html Came her for this. The cartoon had the dinosaurs hiding, and being harder to squish into oil. Kind of crazy, given Chevron certainly knew hasoline didn't come from
I remember Exxon making commercials on Television featuring green dinosaurs dying and turning into oil and being pumped out of the ground into cars. This was in the 1980s and perpetuated the myth.
I only found out the other day that it's extremely likely, that the circumstances that led to the formation of coal, are a literal once in a lifetime of a universe event. They believe it required trees to fossilise meaning no presence of anything like modern day decomposers, else, there would be no coal. This in itself is one of the best if most extreme arguments to make in favour of sustainable energy tech: Can you imagine the horror of being an intelligent species capable of manipulating resources, yet nothing to process in any way? Like if something cataclysmic happened to Humanity. A result of our own actions, or natural disaster... and we had to start again, but with no possibility of ever having a steam-based industrial revolution?
We can make oil out of plants. I don't mean ethanol. I mean actual petroleum products. It's just crazy expensive. Both in terms of energy costs and $$$ costs. Plastics will just be more expensive. You must definitely would not be burning it for cars.
@@TheHorseshoePartyUK Oil is however still forming from algae trapped in marine sediments - the oil fields in the Mississippi delta are remarkably young.
as a child of the 70s and 80s, its what we were taught. Even as a kid it seemed kind of odd to me. I think by high school they started teaching that it was organic matter + time and pressure.
@@moondancer4660 speaking of oil, I think everyone should vote against the willow project which which this particular product is meant for but I don’t want it at the cost of the arctic, so anybody who is reading this please try to get to 3 million petitions
I too was taught in the 70's school that it came from Dinosaurs. We watched films showing massive die off of dinosaurs, bodies piled upon one another, decaying - and a few drops of oil forming to be deposited in the earth below the decay. Perhaps that was some sort of Picturesque Analogy, but it's very misleading.
My Uncle worked for the Sinclair company and when he visited my mom in the early 1960's, he brought me a plastic blow up dinosaur. I was around 4or 5 years old, and I played with that thing until I accidentally popped it on a nail sticking out on the porch. I cried and cried because I really liked my dinosaur.
When I lived in Houston in the 80’s I had a neighbor who was a geologist for a large oil company. He explained to me that they were finding oil deeper and deeper. And that it was not possible for the oil to be this deep in the earth if it was from plant matter.
Back in the 1980s I read an article about a theory that oil comes from a type of meteor known as a carbonaceous chrondite. They said there may be nearly unlimited quantities in the Earth. Probably enough to turn our atmosphere into CO2.
I never thought oil came specifically only from dinosaurs, but rather, I thought it was all sorts of super ancient biomatter, but yes, I had assumed land animal matter was a significant portion of it. I'm glad this video has corrected that notion for me
Of biological matter, the hydrocarbons formed via photosynthesis are highest in energy. Photosynthesis combines water and CO2 into glucose (C6H12O6) as a way to store the energy from sunlight. Chain a bunch of glucose together and you get starches/carbohydrates. Chain a bunch of those together and you get cellulose. That's why wood burns so readily - it's basically sugar. Aside from fat, the stuff that makes up animal matter (mainly proteins) is comparatively lower in energy. Factor in the pyramid-shaped food chain (as you go down from top predators to mid-tier predators to low-tier predators to herbivores to plants, each level requires an order of magnitude more biomass as the level directly above it to support the higher tier). And the bulk of the world's biomass is in plants and plankton. The biomass of bacteria is about 35x greater than the biomass of all animals combined (most of which are insects BTW). And the biomass of plants is about 7x that of bacteria. So plant matter is the most plentiful and is highest in energy.
Except that there are moons of Jupiter that have literal oceans of petrochemicals despite there no way of life ever existing there. And the la Brea tar pits are petrochemical, yet were in existence and trapped many dinosaurs.
@@solandri69 about december 2020 on the jjj radio science show they stated that the total mass of manmade objects had now equalled the total biomass on earth.
I was taught that fossil fuels come from dinosaurs along with the tongue having separate areas for salt, sweet sour Which was disproven years before I was at school (I was at school in the 90's) maybe you should do a video on the lies we were taught at school that had already been disproven
Yes sll the lies taught in 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's for starts. I found some old Britannica encyclopedia's from the 50's and they are chalked full of truth bombs, then something changed in the late 60's.
Less than ten years ago my kid’s biology book was still using the Pepper Moth as evidence for evolution. Note, I am not arguing against evolution here. I am simply stating that this moth is far from currently being an actual example of evolution. This example was high discredited over 40 years ago. I said I was surprised they didn’t just use Piltdown Man.
As a 47 year old adult in the USA, I’m quite sure my elementary school teacher taught us that fossil fuels came from dinosaurs. I appreciate this! Well done and thank you!
This is what was taught when I was a kid, and it wasn’t that long ago. I never thought it made much sense, because there couldn’t be that many dinosaurs buried, crushed, and decomposing into oil lol
Teachers aren't scientists, often they pass on information that they were taught. Terry Pratchett called in 'Lies to Children'; which is a statement that is false, but gives enough general information the lead someone down the track to learn, grow, and understand.
For me, it was from the movie Airplane II: The Sequel “- McCroskey: Jacobs, I want to know absolutely everything that's happened up till now. - Jacobs: Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it.”
The name Brontosaurus is actually back on the table I think, as a recent study found that the bones associated with the name are different enough from the Apatosaurus to merit its own name! There's an article in Scientific American detailing the new study.
Brontosaurus was my favorite dinosaur when I was a kid. I was more excited than an adult should be when I read paleontologists were thinking they were genuine dinosaurs after all. 🦕
@@TrineDaely if you want to have a love-hate relationship with a dinosaur i recommend digging into what's gone on with spinosaurus over the last 5 years lol it makes me head hurt
I learned something new today. I graduated high school in 1994 and I was taught that oil came from dinosaurs. I always wondered how in the world there were that many dinosaurs to provide that much oil.
Graduated in 2004 from our city's highest academically performing school, and it was the same. What's scariest is the teachers backed this up with what I now know to be purely anecdotal nonsense that must have been their headcanon.
Are you sure you learned that in high school and not somewhere else? I was taught correctly in school, but had seen or heard of the myth from multiple other places.
I remember being taught in school that oil came from dinosaurs. I lived in the woods and would notice oil like spots under the leaves. It was that rainbow color you get when oil or gas hits a puddle. I remember thinking as a kid oil must come from recycling plant matter as the earth composts everything that hits the ground.
I believe in the Abiogenic theory. I dont believe that the earth is millions of years old. All these are theories. I believe it comes from the earths core. Which makes a lot more sense. This would make oil produced much faster than the theories from the fossils.
I was absolutely taught this in school. In my late 30's i started working in the oil industry and found out everything i was taught was wrong. This video is partially correct. Crude oil also comes from dead plant material as well through millions of years. Crude oil absolutely predates the dinosaurs. Some of the so-called tar pits that some dinosaurs fell victim to were crude oil pits seeping from beneath. There is also the strange phenomenon of once dried up oil wells full of oil again. Not all, but quite a few. I no longer work in the oil industry, but dam did i learn a lot and enjoyed every minute of it.
Look into abiotic oil. Seems it can easily be made deeper down and bubbles up like it used to before we pumped it. My family in Illinois ran some wells dry 70 years ago or so. Those bastards now produce again and i don't recall any extinction events. That oil came from somewhere. I think we were lied about it to create scarcity so it can be priced and make a few very rich.
Just as jp Morgan went after tesla as he had figured out how to transmit power for free with no wires even. The picture is online of bulbs in the snow on a farm.
I've lived literally 20 minutes away from Glen rose texas most of my life and never even heard of that dinosaur park. My 5 year old is going to love it! Thanks Simon! 💛
After I'd returned to my hometown to finish my AA at the local college and earn my Bachelor's, I recall my chemistry professor, Dr. McCurdy, once commenting, "We will *never* run out of oil. Although, the cost of obtaining it may become prohibitive." At the time, I well appreciated his comment but had not yet grasped its full import.
EASY TO EXTRACT oil will begin to become scarce in the latter half of the century. BUT, as Dr. McCurdy said we'll never run out. COST, on the other hand, will be held in check because advancements in technology are continuing to make hard to get to _unconventional oil_ easier and cheaper to produce.
@dieselscience LOL. Spoken like a thrall dude. The "advancement" in tech do not always makes it reliably make extraction of oil easier and cheaper dude.
@@Jinkypigs It most definitely does. Real time directional drilling, LWD and microseismic imaging are all 21 century perfected technologies that have pushed the curve of 'peak oil' forward another 25 to 50 years. With your comment I have to ask what level of training you have in geology or petrology?
A good friend, a chemist in the oil industry, told my son that oil didn't come from dinosaurs. But his 3rd grade teacher later told him the chemist was wrong.
check out the Abiogenic theory. this IMO is more accurate. the earths core emits gasses that can create oil. And it would not take millions of years which I think the earth is not that old. Think about volcanos.......I am certain they dont come from fossil fuels.
The half-life of carbon underground is 4 million years. The normal period of underground carbon cycles is 5,000 years. Subterranean fuels are typically about 5,000 years old. Coal is typically older and methane much younger.
I am German. Here in Germany, absolutely nobody thinks oil comes from dinosaurs. Every time that is referenced in some media, we are just "What? Where does THAT come from?" Like, recently with Rick and Morty. I didn't even get the joke at first because here in Germany, we don't make that connection between oil and dinosaurs. Probably because the term "fossil fuels" is much more obscure here.
Oh yeah, I remember that joke and it got me confused. At one hand I wasn't sure if the fossile fuel and dinosaur link was true. But at the other, I was confused as to why Rick and Morty presented that as a fact.
Same in the UK. It seems to be a peculiarly American thing. This ad and others by Chevron added to it. th-cam.com/video/w0B0t_4MTuM/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=TheHallofAdvertising
I remember being taught this in the 1980s, and while we later learned that’s wrong, I still refer to it sometimes because it’s become a cultural in-joke.
I like the fact that you dont waste time when you explain stuff. You keep it straight and direct and dont bore people with useless info. Thank you for being that sir. Im glad I found you in this crazy youtube beast. Keep it up!
Okay, wow. I'm embarrassed to say that I grew up thinking this and none of my science teachers ever mentioned the misconceptions to set the record straight - and here I am, an engineer. Mechanical engineer, mind you, so chemistry and biology weren't my field of study, but still...today I found out, at 60 years old.
@@MrEliasdl like why they used the term fossil fuel to have market shortages to control and dictate prices wait till you figure out how planes work. The fuel lie runs oh so deep lol.
Wait till you find out that oil is abiotic... Saturn's orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth
Oddly, we actually keep going back and forth on Brontosaurus. The whole story is wildly complecated and does involve putting the wrong skull on one speciemin but in 2015, a team of scientists suggested splitting Brontosaurus back off into its own genus but this is still a hot debate in the paleontology community.
As a 90s kid I always thought dinosaurs came from a prehistoric mosquito that would get trapped in amber tree sap. Thank you Today I Found Out for clearing things up :-)
All my life I have wondered what formed oil and how it got where it is. All I ever got was generalized references so that I concluded that it was plant material that died all at once all around the globe due to some calamity. How it got where it is I could never make sense of. Now, at age 74 I come across this answer. Thanks for the internet and for these videos.
74 years later you were convinced by a 10 minute video by a youtuber who says oil is the devil while every single item in his studio, and his livelihood is the result of oil extraction. His misinformation and arrogance would not have reached you if not for oil. There are oceans of oil under deserts and mountain ranges that have never hosted plant life. Don't let the affected accent fool you, the man in the video is a hypocrite and grifter.
I always thought it was plants and dinos, but the dinos were given more credit because "your go-juice comes from giant flesh eating reptiles" made a better selling point than "run your car on some plants that died a few million years ago."
I remember the Sinclair logo, thanks for the call-back. I think most people find thinking about dinos as the source easier than thinking about plants and critters you can barely see.
We still have an old building in my town with the Sinclair logo painted on the side. They also had a crossover campaign with the Flintstones. Pretty cool.
@@mr.joshua6818 Me too. My town has a tractor museum that has a small general store with a historic gas pump and the Sinclair logo of a cartoony green dinosaur.
Sometime around 1964 my mom stopped at a Sinclair station for gas and bought me an inflatable green Sinclair Brontosaurus. It was probably about a foot and a half long and half that in height. You blew it up through an opening with a cap attached. Don’t remember when it left my life but probably within the year. I was around six at the time. This was in northern Ohio, USA. Still feel a sweet nostalgia when I see an old green and white Sinclair Dino sign.
I saw an interesting opinion a while back that suggested that the process of transformation may actually be taking quite a bit less time than has been previously thought. I forget what the difference was but the suggestion was that if that is the case, estimates of remaining reserves, when adjusted for the dynamic specified, are greater than previously thought. Not sure if there is any credibility to this, but it was an interesting theory.
I used to work for shell oil and we were told by email that the oil would be gone on the earth by 2030 and that we need to look for something else, yet still it flows
They knew better but knowing 99% of students wouldn't understand or have any memory of it or use for that information later on. Schools often chose a quick easy explaination that sort of gets the message across even if its grossly incomplete or outright incorrect. At least that's how our School District requires of us.
All the schools were doing by teaching that oil comes from dinosaurs, is teaching kids a small understandable piece of a bigger and complex puzzle. Dinosaurs were cool and popular. So what! The schools told half truths, that's what education is giving you small pieces to peak your interest so you can decide if you want to learn more. I'm sorry this entire video he made was nothing but a complete waste of time. I was in biochemist at University when I learned about microfilament, microtubules and buckyballs (C60). All of these come from ancient living organisms and found in oil. Stay in school, idiots! Its free. And soon so will college. Shit changes all the time and new discoveries are always made, like Pluto not being a actual planet. Is he going to go shit on the scientist who called it a planet long ago.
Private schools in America can teach basically whatever they want. I was in public school, they explicitly taught us that oil DOESN'T come from dinosaurs... And that was in Florida, the bellend of the USA. If you were taught that it came from dinos in highschool, you likely went to private school or live in the taint of America, aka the gulf part of Texas.
@@k5sss I can see why often things are simplified for kindergarten kids but I fail to see the necessity to do so here. I mean it's not even simplifying, it's... weirdifying.
Myths are common in schoolhouses. Pop knowledge can be assumed correct by teachers and even textbook committees. Remember that K-12 teachers are not scholars, but tradespersons. It was a vocation not a profession, thus they can have unions. There were many a teacher relaying The Education of Little Tree as a history lesson because Oprah put it on her book list and said it was vital history. It was fiction by Asa Carter, the former grand dragon of the KKK that wrote segregation speeches for George Wallace in the 60s.
Simon... You should do a video on oil itself... How did people 1st discover that there was this black sticky stuff deep beneath the ground that could be used for so many things...
In many parts of the world, oil pooled into lakes. In other places, drilling for water sources inadvertently found oil at shallow depths. This evolved into the oil drilling industry we have today.
Oil seeps out of the ground naturally in a lot of places. The La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles are a good example. Natural seeps under the ocean in the Gulf of Mexico discharge about as much oil into the Atlantic every year as the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The vast majority of tarballs you find on the beaches of California come from natural seeps, not oil spills. So those too would have been available to ancient beachcombers.
Here's how... Come and listen to my story about a man named Jed A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed, And then one day he was shootin at some food, And up through the ground come a bubblin crude. Oil that is. Black gold. Texas tea
The ancient Egyptians treasured chunks of bitumen which were harvested from the shores of the Dead Sea. Oil seeps under the seabed released it and the water leached the lighter hydrocarbons from the blobs. Native Americans also used natural oil springs/pools to gather bitumen for waterproofing canoes and shoes.
Its first modern, commercial use was to make kerosene in the early 1860s. It soon became so popular that it displaced whale oil as the preferred oil for lighting. Oil saved the whales.
There was an advertising campaign from Chevron Oil in the 70's that explicitly stated that oil came from dinosaurs. It even had a brontosaurus turning into an oil pumper in the commercials.
I remember visiting Walt Disney World Epcot in 1983 soon after it opened. They had a very nice exhibit/ride there sponsored by Exxon called "The Universe of Energy" where you first watched a movie showing how oil came from dinosaurs. Then the massive, curved screen slid aside, and the theater seats separated in sections and proceeded to travel through this life-sized mock-up of a primordial swamp equipped with animatronic dinosaurs. The theater sections moved across sand without leaving an impression. Also, there was no track to guide this ride. I remember the transition from an air-conditioned theater to warm mist filled air and the musty swamp smell the most. It was very well done, even if scientifically inaccurate.
I remember being taught that dinosaurs were the source of oil at about 5 years old and didn't believe it then but I didn't know what it actually was. Thanks for the real explanation.
Ya they lied about a lot more contextually speaking Saudi Arabia should have the biggest Dino museum ever rofl oh wait they used them all in their refineries my bad. My guess is the word fossil fuel was not their marketing scam brain child lol😅
There were many things we were taught in school but we're too young and inexperienced to debate. Funny thing is these topics are avoided in university where young adults are more likely to push back
I did t believe it either ! Now I have been vindicated since I learned about abiotic oil. I never believed that the thread of a Colorado River made the Grand Canyon either. Then I learned about hydrology and the two giant lakes which actually formed the Grand Canyon ! I was also taught that driving a car was a privilege as most of us were. Doing some research I learned that it is a right, the right to travel. We don’t need a drivers license or yearly tags unless one uses the roads, OUR roads for commercial activity! It’s amazing how much BS they tell kids !
In the late 60's we were told that they knew that oil came from dinosaurs since bones were often found with the oil. The Le Brea tar pit was used as the example. Somewhere in my mid 40's a geologist overheard me repeating the story to my youngest boys and corrected me.
When at university in the early 90s, we went on several fossil digs in Montana and Wyoming. When we were at the Kemmerer site, I commented that with all of the dinosaurs that died in the area, there sure must be a lot of oil underground there. Our professor said that there was, but very little of it would be from dinosaurs. He explained that most of the biomass that resulted in crude oil came from plants, mostly algae and plankton.
Yes but some oil was made from dinosaurs to when volcanos erupted and comet's buried billions of them all at once Some oil did come from dinosaurs Not all but some But definitely not none
In an up to the 1970's we were taught the oil from Dinosaur thing. It was about 1983 when I got into the Navy as a Jet Engine Mechanic and I had an uncle that worked where they pumped Natural Gas into Wyoming. He was the first to tell me that oil is a mineral, and that it didn't come from Dinosaurs.
It’s the same reason anyone thinks “beer belly” is literal instead of simply alliteration. If you’re fat, it’s because you consume more calories than you burn. The source of those calories is completely irrelevant.
@@angrydoggy9170 it's what was taught when I was in those grades back 30 years ago. I can't tell you what my kids are learning now, but I know what they're being told, and it's a lot of woke stupidity. Cuz you know... 🧪
Hey, Gilles, check your dino research! The Brontosaurus genus was brought back in 2015 after reanalysis of fossil evidence. Up until that point it had been thought to be a mistaken conflation of mostly Apatosaurus bones, but that is no longer considered the case. ^_^
I work for NJR/NJNG a utility/technology company in the North East. We have GIANT salt caverns in Tennessee I believe where we store our Natural Gas(methane) we don’t get into the business of extracting it from the Earth because that is where the most risk lies. We do however store it, transport it, and service utilities that are crucial infrastructure for security, safety, and QOL. To picture it we have essentially a Gas division I like to call it that services Gas lines in the ground, leaks, meter reading, etc. a plumbing division(where I work) we do gas as well just smaller diameter pipe from street to house, water heaters, boilers, combis, and other plumbing issues, etc. we do so by THE BOOK as to filter out as many carcinogenic minerals and materials in water and to not cross contaminate and correct old issues in old houses(not up to code) we also have an electrical division that does solar, generators, and does electrical for every other division, last but not least we have a HVAC division that installs furnaces/heating and cooling and things of the likes. Our last working division is our service techs which handle a little of everything(troubleshooting/part repair) that’s not even getting into the corporate side. I believe we are considered a fortune 1000 or 500 company can’t remember but it was quite the experience coming from a small workplace to coming to a massive company
I don't know if anyone remembers the early 90's TV show called Dinosaurs. Featuring large scale dinosaur animatronic puppets created by Jim Henson. The main characters were the Sinclair family. I now know why. I love when writers make neat connections like this.
In my collection I have two AM pocket radios in the form of gasoline pumps.(Circa 1960s vintage) One is from Sunoco the other is from Sinclair. The station indicator is where "gallons" would be on actual gas pumps. The Sinclair one does have "Dino" on the logo.
What's weird to me is who first found oil and thought, 'aah, yes, a perfect lubricant' up through, 'I've made an engine that needs ancient dead microorganisms to run?' That's the part that always blows my mind.
Intriguing thought process there, I like it. But I think we both know that was probably not the chain of events, tho, certainly would be hilarious if it were. Not a besserwisser moment, I just googled it(ur welcome), your comment just got me curious to find out how it went down; roughly speaking, we MOSTLY used a shit ton of animal fat(imagine the smell when that goes rancid, oof) for ages, but also used veg oils pretty early on too. We seemingly didn't use much else until a short while before we found oil, when we started to use mineral oils. Then all hell broke loose in 1859, when the first oilwell was drilled. For reference, the first "car"(the horseless carriage) was made 1805 and was driven by steam, before that, a metic shit ton needed lubrication, like: waterwheels, chariot/wagon wheels, portcullises, drawbridges, rowlocks, windmills, etc. They tried just slopping on raw crude oil as a lubricant, but animal products were better, sperm whale oil was the bees knees apparently. Wasn't until 1877 they started producing synthetic lubricants from oil, then it was of to the races... presumably. 🌈The more you know🌈 Sorry for try-harding, something is wrong with me, I know! 🥺
Other plant-based oils such as olive oil and rapeseed oil were used thousands of years ago, in addition to animal fats. The similar properties were probably noted at some point. I recall reading someone had the revelation that the sticky, smelly waste could be used as a lubricant and a fuel (before which I believe whale blubber was the most popular.) PS: If you search for "The Ultimate Historical Timeline of Mechanical Lubrication" on mil-comm, you and probably find a pretty good history.
Simon, you have burst a knowledge bubble I have carried around for over 70 years. Glad I have a bunch of per-conceived notions I haven't robbed of. Interesting video, thanks for sharing.
The Oil Museum in Stavanger, Norway also features dinos. Not because they try to tell us oil comes from dinosaurs but because they've found a single dinosaur toe bone in a drilling core from the North Sea oil fields. 🙄 Probably a dead dino that got washed to sea with a flood and then deposited with other sediments.
I had always heard it came from dinosaurs and was surprised a few years ago when I first started learning that it did not. This means that oil is a renewable resource! It might take millions of years, certainly, but still, that means that there should be new oil created every day from this process that has been going on for millions upon millions of years. Of course we might be consuming it faster than it can recreate itself, but still the point is, it is a renewable resource.
I think it was Exxon that made a cartoon commercial where such a brontosaurus was pulling plants (for food) from the ground and turned it into an oil-pumping machine. A tiny bit of truth buried in a lot of fiction.
A guy i met once had written books on the subject. Did studies anyways. He said the earth makes oil naturally. But at the rate in wich we use it the earth cannot replenish it fast enough. Its a natural occurrence like anything else but it cannot replenish fast enough like many things on the planet that we depleted
Love the TIFO series! However this was a particularly odd one for me, as the main thing I found out was that there are people who think oil comes from dinos. In my 4 decades I don't recall ever coming across an instance of someone appearing to think that was the case. Maybe, like a lot of pop culture phenomena, it's an American thing?
I had an in-depth conversation w a science t’cher here in Cda just before Christmas 2022 and she vehemently argued w me that fossil fuel does indeed come from dinosaur’s bones. There was NO reasoning w her, so there are still myths and lies being taught as current curriculum.
in the 1970s there was at least one paper published by a USSR scientist that explained that petroleum was from an igneous source not organic depositions.
turning plants into alcohol is easier than turning meat into alcohol. Makes sense. I kind of like the idea that the oil is made continually from subterranean ecosystems. Not likely, but it would be kind of cool if my wild theory was true, as it would mean the resource is renewable. Also, would be a new subfield of science. I think the movie Monster Truck used that idea, come to think of it.
Oil is part of the carbon cycle. Carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the universe. I think we just need to come up with a more efficient way to use it.
Oil has been produced and found by observing the abiotic methods of oil production. That means it is not produce from anything animal, vegetable or plant in origin. It is produced naturally from far below anything that’s has ever seen daylight. The drilled oil wells have become deeper because the oil is gone from pools with in sediments that have been there for millions of years. Some oil pools used to lay right on the surface known as tar pits. Today some wells are drilled below 4 miles the deepest being 8 miles or so. The deepest shale levels are at 3 miles down. So oil is being produced far below any fossilized rock containing carbon. Yes oil is slowly being pumped out of the ground and it’s becoming harder to find it in abundance but it is still being naturally produced as we speak. So is coal for that matter. But coal is not related to oil in that it’s produced from vegetation and animal remains. It’s the reduction of Carbon based vegetation like trees, animals, grass, algae and remains of forest fires. These become a bog that get covered by volcanic dust and sand these covered bogs get pressed into a negative oxygen zone and form a shale with a high carbon content….or…otherwise known as various grades of coal that lay very close to the earths surface. Many of these zones in fact have become exposed due to earth erosion and now lay open on the surface. Oil on the other hand comes naturally from water, extremely hot minerals and gasses just above the second layer of earth. Earth has three layers: the crust, the mantle, and the core. The crust is made of solid rocks and minerals. Beneath the crust is the mantle, which is also mostly solid rocks and minerals, but punctuated by malleable areas of semi-solid magma. At the center of the Earth is a hot, solid, dense metal core. Just above the second layer is an extremely inhospitable zone…extremely hot, under extreme pressure and has never been witnessed by man. This is where water acts and behaves like oil. It will not vaporize or boil because of the extreme pressure. Water being the best solvent on earth it desolates everything around it. As it cools its content stays in the form of a sticky mass known as crude oil. When naphtha and other lighter forms of oil are separated from crude oil you have bitumen or all the solid stuff that became dissolved in it as it was being made in that hot zone miles below the surface. So oil is still being produced today from scratch. It doesn’t rely on any form of biomass. This story that it needs limestone is and will be proven to be just as invalid as saying it came from dinosaurs or that the northern lights are made by sunlight bouncing off the icebergs at the North Pole. That being said….man pumping all the oil, (a natural lubricant needed by earths growing crust) is I believe going to cause a catastrophic event someday. Possibly enormous earthquakes well above 9 or 10 on the Richter scale and in areas not yet categorized as earthquake zones. They I believe will not effect the earths atmosphere or climate but will destroy everything on the surface….much the same way as a massive flood. Very few people living in large cities will survive. It will devastate the population of man and drastically change the way we live. Coastal cities will have to deal with huge tidal waves possibly thousands of feet tall. It will be the preverbal hairy dog shaking all the water off his fur from head to tail. Man is ruining the earth and the earth’s creator will not tolerate it much longer.
One of my favorite hobbies is to ask those who call hydro carbons: fossil fuel, which prehistoric entities have traveled to Titan and Neptune to make fossil fuel there
I had one of those plastic injected dinosaurs from a machine when we headed down to Florida in the early 70's. My brother got one as well. I think the machine fastinated my Dad as he was not one to spend money on frivolous things. He made an exception in this case.
Once I forgot a piece of chicken (the descendant of dinosaurs) in the kitchen for a couple of weeks, it became very oily and was turning dark like petroleum and I found out because it was producing natural gas, so how do you explain that?, *note: I didn't eat it (because I didn't want to be featured in a ChubbyEmu video).
I'm old enough to know where this myth probably comes from. At least in the United States. In the 1960s and 1970s there was a Shell Oil commercial that said, "put a dinosaur in your tank". It them had an animation showing a sauropod with its head sticking out of a cars gas tank. So the myth was spread by oil companies.
And somehow they started teaching it in American schools which is why I believed that till I was about 28. Went to elementary school in the early nineties btw
Not sure if it was a regional thing or not, but we were definitely told in school that oil came from Dinosaur bones. It's strange because some people I talk to were taught the same thing, and some never heard the concept before. However, it did permeate pop-culture in films like Disney's CARSA where the oil company is literally called DINO-CO and has a Dinosaur as their logo.
I, like many young boys were and are still today, was obsessed with dinosaurs. I can't recall if the I learned the "oil is from dinosaur" myth from school or if it was from the many dinosaur books I had as a kid.
I love that every teacher I ever had in public school in the US thinks that oil is dinosaur squeezing. What else did they lie about? Seems like nearly everything.
They were complicit in the lie for not using their freaking brains to think about it and realize when shit doesn’t make sense. The audacity of my teachers to call themselves educators, when I could often correct them myself in real time or prove them wrong with a quick google search.
@@angrydoggy9170 when I went Vegan, almost 8 years ago, my aunt, who was 40 then, literally said I couldn't drive a car then, because the oil that gasoline is made from came from dinosaurs. So 🤷♂️ I'm not wanting to turn this into any kind of Vegan discussion, it was just a weird coincidental event that required the backstory. 🤜🤛
It's amazing how you could be that daft. I don't understand how it could even have happened. It's one thing not to know because you've never cared to ask. But to genuinely seek the answer and manage to end up dumber is an achievement in ineptitude.
@@SophiaAstatine you believe the algae turning into oil is easier to believe than dinosaurs? This was something told to us as children and reinforced several times. It’s funny you make it sound like people should know it sounds off. It sounds as off as algae turning into oil over spans of time humans can’t understand. We were told all kinds of wrong stuff that we had no way to check. Didn’t have the internet until I was like 19 lol. We just found out not long ago that Pluto wasn’t a planet. How daft that we thought Pluto was a planet without doing our own research
@@scrogfpv7443 Entirely different thing. Pluto was considered a planet in all scientific literature until a few years ago. Oil was never considered as coming from Dinosaurs. Btw, there was a thing you could use to research stuff before the internet called books. They could be found in something called a library.
@@scrogfpv7443 First of all, Pluto being a planet or not is not even slightly comparable. Whether Pluto is a planet or not, the universe does not care what names we give things and the definitions we assign, nor how we change them over time, which is ultimately what is at the root of the Pluto thing. Secondly, it is not the fact of whether or not it is any more or less believable, but that you were told seemingly intentionally provided with the wrong information, despite the fact that both the right and wrong answer would be equally useful to a child (IE, not at all, which is why I once again wonder why this topic comes up so frequently for American children that this stuff exists in the first place). As for spans of time humans can comprehend, that interval is a lot lower than you realise. Gaps in time beyond a thousand years or so are pretty much incomprehensible to humans, and hence are usually represented in a visual format within which a comprehensible window of time is included to grant perspective(Which in itself is not comprehension) Ultimately, what is completely daft is that some idiot thought that involving dinosaurs would in any way benefit or enlighten any children, or in any capacity improve how comprehensive the concept would be to said children. If anything, it displays complete ineptitude in terms of paedagogy and didatic methods, if not outright stupidity in the human who inflicted this stupidity on who knows how many generations.
Some time ago I worked in the oil industry. on my first day my boss showed me a geological map. on the map it showed the oil reserves for the 100 sq. mile area I was working in. He explained that this one "pocket" had enough oil to power the entire country for the next 300 years. This was one pocket in a 5thousand mile area.
I have an oil pumper on my land that has been pumping since 1962 which still pays royalties. Often I muse just how deep and full that “pocket” must be. Also have a 2nd pumper 1/2 mile from that one and a gas valve in between those 2 pumpers.
Also, the atmosphere is suffocating after millions of years of carbon dioxide being sucked from it and trapped under sediment. Plant life was almost dead when the industrial revolution started putting co2 back in the air where it belongs
It is all just words, until you are holding the oil shale in your hands. I can't even state how cool it is to hold a core sample from over 10,000ft down in your own hands.
@@BlueRidgeBubble I was one of the 6 roughnecks that drilled the core sample. The geologist thought I would like to see the fruits of our labors and let me hold a 12" piece of the sample.
I remember going to the rig with a few guys on a crew change to oversee core recovery. The company man walked right up to me and said 'You must be the geo', I asked him how he knew and he said 'Your helmet is clean' XD
I was taught this in public school in the mid 80’s to early 90’s. It was one form of organic matter that created fossil fuels, not the only. It was also used to explain why fossil fuels were going to run out and cause a massive collapse of humanity’s ability to function so we had to adopt recycling and alternative energy sources. As kids in school we were taught to believe our teachers because it was their job to properly educate us, and they supposedly knew more than our parents because many of our parents hadn’t gone to college but the teachers had. Same brainwashing techniques used today just different narratives being pushed in or out of our brains.
thousands maybe millions of years of plancton... that was wht I learned, a molecular sediment that compressed into petro. I found that more logic than beeing atual dinossaurs
People forget that plastic was championed by environmentalists as recycable, which is not always possible and has led to serious pollution from westerners giving their trash to other countries and being unable to dispose of them.
I started 1st grade in 1953. Within a couple of years, a discussion (or maybe it was just a Weekly Reader story) came up about dinosaurs. I vaguely remember a picture of some dinosaurs milling around what I thought was a pond. The teacher said it wasn't water but tar pits. She said the dinosaurs would get trapped in the tar pits, die, and over the millions of years after that, decay into crude oil. Even as a 7 or 8 year old, and with far fewer cars on the road than we have now, I thought "that sure is gonna take a helluva lot of dinosaurs." And even now, dinosaur fossils aren't being discovered at a hundred a day, are they? Little kids may not understand things or have the words to explain it, but they know a b.s. story when they hear one. I also knew the 'Santa thing' (Tooth fairy, too) was also b.s., but if it's gonna get me some presents, I'd be stupid not to go along with it. But a long time ago I quit receiving presents. He must've died, or something.
@@jamisojo yes but my question is, did sea dinosaurs(and every ocean dwelling animals) are not even a little bit of contribution to the oil we use today? Like 5 percent or 2 percent?
Dinosaurs do at least make up some oil Not most but some tar pits volcanos comet's all buried billions of dinosaurs He said none but some did Your teacher was at least half correct He said none was made from dinosaurs False
@@bennywins2930 thay contributed some oil yes tar pits volcanos and comet's buried billions of dinosaurs Thay did make oil But not as much as the oceans But thay definitely made some oil That we have used To say that didn't is not correct It's good to question things on the internet instead of just believing it That's why some people think the earth is flat now The internet
I wondered about this for a long time after hearing about "methane-lakes" on ... Titan? I don't remember which moon or planet, but it's not Earth. So either they had "ancient animals that decayed", or fossil-fuels -- _which methane _*_absolutely_*_ is_ -- isn't purely a by-product of rotting life-forms.
When it comes to basic necessities like energy and food it always amazes me how little anyone knows about how it’s Produced. Part of the reason the ideologs and environmental activists can get away with what they are
@@johnwatters6922 at the end this BS "speculation" is the fantastic liberal hope fantasy that the use of fossil fuels will cease is shear IGNORANCE... EVERYTHING you see, own, and touch has been made either by the use of or the use with fossil fuels, including clothing, food products and packaging, medicines, solar panels and wind generators, and JUST EVERYTHING... we can't live without it...
When I was in grade school over 50 years ago, my teacher propogated the dinosour myth and stated "at the current rate of use, the world will be out of oil in 50 years." So, here we are, 50+ years later, at a much accelerated use of oil, and we still have abundant deposits of oil. It just shows me that those who speak with great authority about our world, speak what they know, which is very little. Nice little slice about how the use of oil is slowly killing the planet. Almost sounded like a plug for JSO.
I had one of those injection molded Dino’s from the world fair! First grade in school. Later the brand disappeared on the east coast . Years later driving across country in the Midwest I saw a Sinclair station and got excited like a kid! My children had no idea why. I explained the Flintstones Dog Dino and the Sinclair mascot ran together in kids minds plus the World Fair model I had.
I just entered “how did we figure out where oil comes from?” I’m convinced you were put here to answer every question any respectable number of people has ever asked google.
I… literally looked this guy twice over the past five years. I remember distinctly looking it up bc its something i always knew but i heard it again in a movie or something and it just boggled my mind again how so many dinosaurs died in the same “pit” and became enough oil to pump out millions of gallons a day or week. When u google/youtube it and type it like “how dinosaurs become fossil fuels/oil” it will show u exactly that which further perpetuates the myth
Very briefly, the thing at the end about Brontosaurus not being its own dinosaur was considered correct... until recently. Marsh's initial mistake of naming the new discovery "Brontosaurus" when it was, in fact, an Apatosaurus was discovered pretty quickly within the first few years of the discovery in the 1890s, but the name Brontosaurus had already caught on. Paleontologists did not consider Brontosaurus to be a valid dinosaur for over a century, but in 2015 a study was published that concluded that, after comparing a lot of different sauropod fossils including the original Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus specimens, there was actually enough of a difference that Brontosaurus could be considered a valid genus of dinosaur distinct from Apatosaurus. Some paleontologists disagreed with the findings, and many still do, but the general consensus since 2015 is that Brontosaurus is, once again, a valid dinosaur.
My 5th grade teacher taught us that it absolutely did come from dinosaurs. I remember, because I remember asking her how that was possible, and if that is where it came from then why are we going to run out some day since there are so many ancient animals and people that have died. Couldn’t we use them to make the fossil fuel too if that is where it came from?
She told me I had a very disturbing thought process and wouldn’t answer any more of my questions. Had the whole class treating me like I was weird for the rest of the year, all because I was trying to use my 5th grade logic and the math didn’t math, and she was offended I questioned her.
Teachers are tyrants, just like cops.
Sounds like the American education system at its finest
@@nharber9837 Excellent! Best reply to Best comment! Well done Sir!
makes sense to a kid. I can see how you got there
@@mtvntn American refers to the continent, the country is the United States; that is part of the dumbing down of the United States citizens. It’s done through the main stream news, and Hollywood. People just can’t see the forest for the trees.
My Grandfather leaned into the dinosaur thing even further by telling me, when I was a teenager, that different types of oil came from different types of dinosaurs. 20w-50 was from a Brontosaurus, 10w-40 was T-rex, 10w-30 was a Stegosaurus, etc.. He said that's why some engines were louder than others. It depended on which type of dinosaur was growling inside.
Yikes!!! Quite an imagination 🤣
That's funny
What a great Grandpa 😂
Your grandfather was the shit!
The original "dad joke"
One part you left out was back in 1977 Chevron Oil ran a series of animated commercials using dinosaur's becoming oil with the tag line "some creature gave it's all " for your tank of gas.
Thank you! I remembered these commercials, especially the dinosaur disappearing into a car's gas tank or something like that.
I’m 56, & I’m still trying to figure out how so many people thought this, yet I’ve never heard it. Lol
I posted that commercial above :-)
Can you link the video to it?
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Came her for this. The cartoon had the dinosaurs hiding, and being harder to squish into oil. Kind of crazy, given Chevron certainly knew hasoline didn't come from
I remember Exxon making commercials on Television featuring green dinosaurs dying and turning into oil and being pumped out of the ground into cars. This was in the 1980s and perpetuated the myth.
Fletcher Prouty Explains Invention and Use of Term "Fossil Fuels"
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Wait… Oil doesn’t come from Dinosaurs… Since plastic comes from Oil, plastic Dinosaurs aren’t made from real dinosaurs…
I only found out the other day that it's extremely likely, that the circumstances that led to the formation of coal, are a literal once in a lifetime of a universe event. They believe it required trees to fossilise meaning no presence of anything like modern day decomposers, else, there would be no coal. This in itself is one of the best if most extreme arguments to make in favour of sustainable energy tech: Can you imagine the horror of being an intelligent species capable of manipulating resources, yet nothing to process in any way? Like if something cataclysmic happened to Humanity. A result of our own actions, or natural disaster... and we had to start again, but with no possibility of ever having a steam-based industrial revolution?
@@TheHorseshoePartyUK there is still wood and because of that also charcoal. Would be a bit more work than just using coal, but it’s still possible
no,but dinosaur nuggets do!
We can make oil out of plants. I don't mean ethanol. I mean actual petroleum products. It's just crazy expensive. Both in terms of energy costs and $$$ costs. Plastics will just be more expensive. You must definitely would not be burning it for cars.
@@TheHorseshoePartyUK Oil is however still forming from algae trapped in marine sediments - the oil fields in the Mississippi delta are remarkably young.
as a child of the 70s and 80s, its what we were taught. Even as a kid it seemed kind of odd to me. I think by high school they started teaching that it was organic matter + time and pressure.
They taught me it was made from dinosaurs in school
@@moondancer4660 speaking of oil, I think everyone should vote against the willow project which which this particular product is meant for but I don’t want it at the cost of the arctic, so anybody who is reading this please try to get to 3 million petitions
I heard it in school in the 2000s.
I too was taught in the 70's school that it came from Dinosaurs. We watched films showing massive die off of dinosaurs, bodies piled upon one another, decaying - and a few drops of oil forming to be deposited in the earth below the decay. Perhaps that was some sort of Picturesque Analogy, but it's very misleading.
Also a child of the 70s and 80s. The origin story I remember is that "fossil fuel" comes from the fact that fossils are commonly found in coal mines.
My Uncle worked for the Sinclair company and when he visited my mom in the early 1960's, he brought me a plastic blow up dinosaur. I was around 4or 5 years old, and I played with that thing until I accidentally popped it on a nail sticking out on the porch. I cried and cried because I really liked my dinosaur.
The most relatable comment I've ever read.
lol, I somehow feel this in my soul.
I loved my green Sinclair blow up dinosaur! We were from California, but were transferred to Illinois where I got my Dino. I was 5 in 65.
yall have adorable stories haha
Ok?
Why do people think oil comes from dinosaurs? Because that's the kind of shit they were taught in school.
Exactly
Because there is more than one type of oil.
When I lived in Houston in the 80’s I had a neighbor who was a geologist for a large oil company.
He explained to me that they were finding oil deeper and deeper. And that it was not possible for the oil to be this deep in the earth if it was from plant matter.
Back in the 1980s I read an article about a theory that oil comes from a type of meteor known as a carbonaceous chrondite. They said there may be nearly unlimited quantities in the Earth. Probably enough to turn our atmosphere into CO2.
Besides that, there are reportedly lakes of oil on Saturn's moon Titan... how did that get there?
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I didn’t know that.
Seems plausible if we can’t explain it here on earth!
There are hydrocarbons on Titan, not oil.
@peterquadarella5145 hydrocarbons are compounds of hydrogen and carbon, of which crude oil is composed of.
I never thought oil came specifically only from dinosaurs, but rather, I thought it was all sorts of super ancient biomatter, but yes, I had assumed land animal matter was a significant portion of it. I'm glad this video has corrected that notion for me
Of biological matter, the hydrocarbons formed via photosynthesis are highest in energy. Photosynthesis combines water and CO2 into glucose (C6H12O6) as a way to store the energy from sunlight. Chain a bunch of glucose together and you get starches/carbohydrates. Chain a bunch of those together and you get cellulose. That's why wood burns so readily - it's basically sugar. Aside from fat, the stuff that makes up animal matter (mainly proteins) is comparatively lower in energy.
Factor in the pyramid-shaped food chain (as you go down from top predators to mid-tier predators to low-tier predators to herbivores to plants, each level requires an order of magnitude more biomass as the level directly above it to support the higher tier). And the bulk of the world's biomass is in plants and plankton. The biomass of bacteria is about 35x greater than the biomass of all animals combined (most of which are insects BTW). And the biomass of plants is about 7x that of bacteria.
So plant matter is the most plentiful and is highest in energy.
@Solandri Acanthocybium no worries, we're mowing all that down to crop fields and lawns with zero biodiversity.
Except that there are moons of Jupiter that have literal oceans of petrochemicals despite there no way of life ever existing there. And the la Brea tar pits are petrochemical, yet were in existence and trapped many dinosaurs.
@@solandri69 photosynthesis does not create hydrocarbons.
You confuse them with carbohydrates.
Hydrocarbons have higher energy than carbohydrates.
@@solandri69 about december 2020 on the jjj radio science show they stated that the total mass of manmade objects had now equalled the total biomass on earth.
I was taught that fossil fuels come from dinosaurs along with the tongue having separate areas for salt, sweet sour Which was disproven years before I was at school (I was at school in the 90's) maybe you should do a video on the lies we were taught at school that had already been disproven
Look up “Rob Skiba” on lies of NASA.
Yes sll the lies taught in 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's for starts. I found some old Britannica encyclopedia's from the 50's and they are chalked full of truth bombs, then something changed in the late 60's.
that would be a very long video
@@jordangouveia1863 Indeed.
Less than ten years ago my kid’s biology book was still using the Pepper Moth as evidence for evolution.
Note, I am not arguing against evolution here. I am simply stating that this moth is far from currently being an actual example of evolution. This example was high discredited over 40 years ago.
I said I was surprised they didn’t just use Piltdown Man.
As a 47 year old adult in the USA, I’m quite sure my elementary school teacher taught us that fossil fuels came from dinosaurs.
I appreciate this!
Well done and thank you!
Fletcher Prouty Explains Invention and Use of Term "Fossil Fuels"
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This is what was taught when I was a kid, and it wasn’t that long ago. I never thought it made much sense, because there couldn’t be that many dinosaurs buried, crushed, and decomposing into oil lol
Teachers aren't scientists, often they pass on information that they were taught.
Terry Pratchett called in 'Lies to Children'; which is a statement that is false, but gives enough general information the lead someone down the track to learn, grow, and understand.
For me, it was from the movie Airplane II: The Sequel
“- McCroskey: Jacobs, I want to know absolutely everything that's happened up till now.
- Jacobs: Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And Prince Charles started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it.”
Its also rare to find fossils in coal mines.
@timothykeith1367 common to find fossils as they mine for coal... anything in the actually coal seam doesn't get preserved as a fossil.
@Aaron Dunn let's fix it by making a list of every misconception taught to kids in order to teach teachers to debunk it.
The name Brontosaurus is actually back on the table I think, as a recent study found that the bones associated with the name are different enough from the Apatosaurus to merit its own name! There's an article in Scientific American detailing the new study.
Brontosaurus was my favorite dinosaur when I was a kid. I was more excited than an adult should be when I read paleontologists were thinking they were genuine dinosaurs after all. 🦕
It is.
I love this news! Dimetrodon is still my favorite ancient reptile. Anky is my favorite dino.
@@TrineDaely if you want to have a love-hate relationship with a dinosaur i recommend digging into what's gone on with spinosaurus over the last 5 years lol it makes me head hurt
The thundersaurus lives!
Edit: well, kinda
I learned something new today. I graduated high school in 1994 and I was taught that oil came from dinosaurs. I always wondered how in the world there were that many dinosaurs to provide that much oil.
Graduated in 2004 from our city's highest academically performing school, and it was the same. What's scariest is the teachers backed this up with what I now know to be purely anecdotal nonsense that must have been their headcanon.
I graduated in 95, and was already aware oil was not made of dinosaurs.
@@jonnyohiggins6969 Same...it's not about when you went to school; but where. I was fortunate enough to have some great teachers at mine.
Are you sure you learned that in high school and not somewhere else? I was taught correctly in school, but had seen or heard of the myth from multiple other places.
They actually just peed it
I remember being taught in school that oil came from dinosaurs. I lived in the woods and would notice oil like spots under the leaves. It was that rainbow color you get when oil or gas hits a puddle. I remember thinking as a kid oil must come from recycling plant matter as the earth composts everything that hits the ground.
MAYBE IT WAS ALWAYS HERE. CRAZY THOUGHT, HEY? WHERE DID WATER COME FROM? DRAGON WINGS?
Fletcher Prouty Explains Invention and Use of Term "Fossil Fuels"
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I believe in the Abiogenic theory. I dont believe that the earth is millions of years old. All these are theories. I believe it comes from the earths core. Which makes a lot more sense. This would make oil produced much faster than the theories from the fossils.
I was absolutely taught this in school. In my late 30's i started working in the oil industry and found out everything i was taught was wrong. This video is partially correct. Crude oil also comes from dead plant material as well through millions of years. Crude oil absolutely predates the dinosaurs. Some of the so-called tar pits that some dinosaurs fell victim to were crude oil pits seeping from beneath. There is also the strange phenomenon of once dried up oil wells full of oil again. Not all, but quite a few. I no longer work in the oil industry, but dam did i learn a lot and enjoyed every minute of it.
Look into abiotic oil. Seems it can easily be made deeper down and bubbles up like it used to before we pumped it. My family in Illinois ran some wells dry 70 years ago or so. Those bastards now produce again and i don't recall any extinction events. That oil came from somewhere. I think we were lied about it to create scarcity so it can be priced and make a few very rich.
Just as jp Morgan went after tesla as he had figured out how to transmit power for free with no wires even. The picture is online of bulbs in the snow on a farm.
@@thecasualatvguy617 you can do that now. Not very efficient but doable.
@lawnmowerdude with advancements in tech I bet what tesla wanted to do can be done
@@thecasualatvguy617 I do agree with you on that. Tesla was way ahead of his time.
I've lived literally 20 minutes away from Glen rose texas most of my life and never even heard of that dinosaur park. My 5 year old is going to love it! Thanks Simon! 💛
Go to Waco sometime and see the only mammoth (not the wooly type - forget the name) nursery for that type of mammoth.
How can you call yourself a Texan if you didn't know that? Shame...
@stonent I don't get out much. Just work and go home mainly.
@@monktribal951 plus it is a LARGE state!
@stonent Texas is a LARGE state. Plus I'm not a native Texan. Been here 37 years out of 67.
After I'd returned to my hometown to finish my AA at the local college and earn my Bachelor's, I recall my chemistry professor, Dr. McCurdy, once commenting, "We will *never* run out of oil. Although, the cost of obtaining it may become prohibitive." At the time, I well appreciated his comment but had not yet grasped its full import.
EASY TO EXTRACT oil will begin to become scarce in the latter half of the century. BUT, as Dr. McCurdy said we'll never run out. COST, on the other hand, will be held in check because advancements in technology are continuing to make hard to get to _unconventional oil_ easier and cheaper to produce.
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Hey if we are giving shouts out to teachers that changed our lives Hey miss Naylor of Pasco Hernando community college.
@dieselscience LOL. Spoken like a thrall dude. The "advancement" in tech do not always makes it reliably make extraction of oil easier and cheaper dude.
@@Jinkypigs It most definitely does. Real time directional drilling, LWD and microseismic imaging are all 21 century perfected technologies that have pushed the curve of 'peak oil' forward another 25 to 50 years. With your comment I have to ask what level of training you have in geology or petrology?
A good friend, a chemist in the oil industry, told my son that oil didn't come from dinosaurs. But his 3rd grade teacher later told him the chemist was wrong.
check out the Abiogenic theory. this IMO is more accurate. the earths core emits gasses that can create oil. And it would not take millions of years which I think the earth is not that old. Think about volcanos.......I am certain they dont come from fossil fuels.
@mikesrandomvideos, my grandfather was in oil since 1933 and he would back your comments.
My take-a-way from this is that oil is a renewable source of energy. Excellent!!
The half-life of carbon underground is 4 million years. The normal period of underground carbon cycles is 5,000 years. Subterranean fuels are typically about 5,000 years old. Coal is typically older and methane much younger.
@@jameso1447not exactly. methane can be much older if kerogen is cooked at too high a temperature. coal is certainly younger than crude oil.
You don't know how angry I am right now after learning this....thanks Simon.
ROTFL! ohh... I'm sorry. 😅. I'm not laughing at you. I'm laughing because I believed that for DECADES!!
@@LisaHumble your comment makes you look like a 14 year old discovering texting in 2005
@@Stellar-Cowboy so...?
@@LisaHumble and his comment makes him look like a jerk
You do you!
@@tinathompson6796 why thank you, Tina. That was very kind.
I am German. Here in Germany, absolutely nobody thinks oil comes from dinosaurs. Every time that is referenced in some media, we are just "What? Where does THAT come from?" Like, recently with Rick and Morty. I didn't even get the joke at first because here in Germany, we don't make that connection between oil and dinosaurs. Probably because the term "fossil fuels" is much more obscure here.
Oh yeah, I remember that joke and it got me confused. At one hand I wasn't sure if the fossile fuel and dinosaur link was true. But at the other, I was confused as to why Rick and Morty presented that as a fact.
Same in the UK. It seems to be a peculiarly American thing. This ad and others by Chevron added to it. th-cam.com/video/w0B0t_4MTuM/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=TheHallofAdvertising
We dont have this 'myth' in the United Kingdom either.
I never heard it in the US either, until this video
I remember being taught this in the 1980s, and while we later learned that’s wrong, I still refer to it sometimes because it’s become a cultural in-joke.
I like the fact that you dont waste time when you explain stuff. You keep it straight and direct and dont bore people with useless info. Thank you for being that sir. Im glad I found you in this crazy youtube beast. Keep it up!
Fletcher Prouty Explains Invention and Use of Term "Fossil Fuels"
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Okay, wow. I'm embarrassed to say that I grew up thinking this and none of my science teachers ever mentioned the misconceptions to set the record straight - and here I am, an engineer. Mechanical engineer, mind you, so chemistry and biology weren't my field of study, but still...today I found out, at 60 years old.
as an ME you would of had to take Chem at my college
Civil engineer for over twenty years coming from a family of auto mechanics and equally as gullible. Brings a lot into question.
@@MrEliasdl like why they used the term fossil fuel to have market shortages to control and dictate prices wait till you figure out how planes work. The fuel lie runs oh so deep lol.
Wait till you find out that oil is abiotic... Saturn's orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth
Same here. That was a long time ago, and as I recall the only chem 101 I paid attention to was what I could apply to my metallurgy classes.
Oddly, we actually keep going back and forth on Brontosaurus. The whole story is wildly complecated and does involve putting the wrong skull on one speciemin but in 2015, a team of scientists suggested splitting Brontosaurus back off into its own genus but this is still a hot debate in the paleontology community.
I'm 17 and already new oil is from organic matter so thank you for still teaching me something after I clicked on a vid I already knew about
As a 90s kid I always thought dinosaurs came from a prehistoric mosquito that would get trapped in amber tree sap. Thank you Today I Found Out for clearing things up :-)
What the heck? lol That's kinda cute. I don't recall ever hearing that mosquitoes were dinosaur ancestors.
Clever Girl! 🦖
@@Azby64 "Welcome to Jurassic Park" ~John Hammond~
If you asked me yesterday, where oil came from, I would say, decomposed dinosaurs. It's a very pervasive and common myth. 🤬
All my life I have wondered what formed oil and how it got where it is. All I ever got was generalized references so that I concluded that it was plant material that died all at once all around the globe due to some calamity. How it got where it is I could never make sense of. Now, at age 74 I come across this answer. Thanks for the internet and for these videos.
74 years later you were convinced by a 10 minute video by a youtuber who says oil is the devil while every single item in his studio, and his livelihood is the result of oil extraction. His misinformation and arrogance would not have reached you if not for oil. There are oceans of oil under deserts and mountain ranges that have never hosted plant life. Don't let the affected accent fool you, the man in the video is a hypocrite and grifter.
I don't know for sure. But the abiotic oil hypothesis makes a lot of sense to me. Just FWIW.
@@Biosynchro But how did it get so far underground?
@@virginiamoss7045 The theory states that oil is actually formed deeper in the crust, or perhaps the mantle.
@@Biosynchro What theory?
I always thought it was plants and dinos, but the dinos were given more credit because "your go-juice comes from giant flesh eating reptiles" made a better selling point than "run your car on some plants that died a few million years ago."
Since oil is made from plants, does that make them vegan? 🙂
@@johntilghman go green, burn fossil fuels
@The_LanMan no they aren't eating the oil are they? Unless your referring to the car being vegan
@@Name.......... that works for me. My vegan car.
Trees become coal
I remember the Sinclair logo, thanks for the call-back. I think most people find thinking about dinos as the source easier than thinking about plants and critters you can barely see.
Earl Sinclair was a dinosaur, though.
I still have a green Smilodon gas station give-away, back when they gave out S&H Green stamps too.
We still have an old building in my town with the Sinclair logo painted on the side. They also had a crossover campaign with the Flintstones. Pretty cool.
They are still in business as independent stations. There is one not too far from me.
@@mr.joshua6818 Me too. My town has a tractor museum that has a small general store with a historic gas pump and the Sinclair logo of a cartoony green dinosaur.
Sometime around 1964 my mom stopped at a Sinclair station for gas and bought me an inflatable green Sinclair Brontosaurus. It was probably about a foot and a half long and half that in height. You blew it up through an opening with a cap attached. Don’t remember when it left my life but probably within the year. I was around six at the time. This was in northern Ohio, USA. Still feel a sweet nostalgia when I see an old green and white Sinclair Dino sign.
I feel you. because I played with mine all day long, until it deflated.
@@sandrataylor3723 ❤️
I saw an interesting opinion a while back that suggested that the process of transformation may actually be taking quite a bit less time than has been previously thought. I forget what the difference was but the suggestion was that if that is the case, estimates of remaining reserves, when adjusted for the dynamic specified, are greater than previously thought. Not sure if there is any credibility to this, but it was an interesting theory.
It's not a theory, it's proven fact
I too remember hearing this, an interesting hypothesis which if correct would mean our oil reserves will be far longer lived than currently thought.
I used to work for shell oil and we were told by email that the oil would be gone on the earth by 2030 and that we need to look for something else, yet still it flows
I remember 12 years of public school being taught that oil came from dinosaurs and I just never had a reason to question it.
They knew better but knowing 99% of students wouldn't understand or have any memory of it or use for that information later on.
Schools often chose a quick easy explaination that sort of gets the message across even if its grossly incomplete or outright incorrect.
At least that's how our School District requires of us.
All the schools were doing by teaching that oil comes from dinosaurs, is teaching kids a small understandable piece of a bigger and complex puzzle. Dinosaurs were cool and popular. So what! The schools told half truths, that's what education is giving you small pieces to peak your interest so you can decide if you want to learn more. I'm sorry this entire video he made was nothing but a complete waste of time. I was in biochemist at University when I learned about microfilament, microtubules and buckyballs (C60). All of these come from ancient living organisms and found in oil. Stay in school, idiots! Its free. And soon so will college. Shit changes all the time and new discoveries are always made, like Pluto not being a actual planet. Is he going to go shit on the scientist who called it a planet long ago.
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…they told you there was an Easter bunny too……….
@@LTV_inc interestingly enough, I was never told that the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus were real as a child.
This was more than a myth. I was taught this in high school.
That can’t possibly be true.
Private schools in America can teach basically whatever they want. I was in public school, they explicitly taught us that oil DOESN'T come from dinosaurs... And that was in Florida, the bellend of the USA. If you were taught that it came from dinos in highschool, you likely went to private school or live in the taint of America, aka the gulf part of Texas.
@@joachimb5721 I was taught this in elementary school, but high school science was generally more accurate.
@@k5sss I can see why often things are simplified for kindergarten kids but I fail to see the necessity to do so here. I mean it's not even simplifying, it's... weirdifying.
Myths are common in schoolhouses. Pop knowledge can be assumed correct by teachers and even textbook committees.
Remember that K-12 teachers are not scholars, but tradespersons. It was a vocation not a profession, thus they can have unions.
There were many a teacher relaying The Education of Little Tree as a history lesson because Oprah put it on her book list and said it was vital history.
It was fiction by Asa Carter, the former grand dragon of the KKK that wrote segregation speeches for George Wallace in the 60s.
Simon... You should do a video on oil itself... How did people 1st discover that there was this black sticky stuff deep beneath the ground that could be used for so many things...
In many parts of the world, oil pooled into lakes. In other places, drilling for water sources inadvertently found oil at shallow depths. This evolved into the oil drilling industry we have today.
Oil seeps out of the ground naturally in a lot of places. The La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles are a good example. Natural seeps under the ocean in the Gulf of Mexico discharge about as much oil into the Atlantic every year as the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The vast majority of tarballs you find on the beaches of California come from natural seeps, not oil spills. So those too would have been available to ancient beachcombers.
Here's how...
Come and listen to my story about a man named Jed
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed,
And then one day he was shootin at some food,
And up through the ground come a bubblin crude.
Oil that is. Black gold. Texas tea
The ancient Egyptians treasured chunks of bitumen which were harvested from the shores of the Dead Sea. Oil seeps under the seabed released it and the water leached the lighter hydrocarbons from the blobs. Native Americans also used natural oil springs/pools to gather bitumen for waterproofing canoes and shoes.
Its first modern, commercial use was to make kerosene in the early 1860s. It soon became so popular that it displaced whale oil as the preferred oil for lighting. Oil saved the whales.
There was an advertising campaign from Chevron Oil in the 70's that explicitly stated that oil came from dinosaurs. It even had a brontosaurus turning into an oil pumper in the commercials.
I remember visiting Walt Disney World Epcot in 1983 soon after it opened. They had a very nice exhibit/ride there sponsored by Exxon called "The Universe of Energy" where you first watched a movie showing how oil came from dinosaurs. Then the massive, curved screen slid aside, and the theater seats separated in sections and proceeded to travel through this life-sized mock-up of a primordial swamp equipped with animatronic dinosaurs. The theater sections moved across sand without leaving an impression. Also, there was no track to guide this ride. I remember the transition from an air-conditioned theater to warm mist filled air and the musty swamp smell the most. It was very well done, even if scientifically inaccurate.
That was one of my favorite rides there.
Woa. Even walt disney was pushing for the generalisation of the origins of oil. Fascinating, thanks for sharing.
I remember being taught that dinosaurs were the source of oil at about 5 years old and didn't believe it then but I didn't know what it actually was. Thanks for the real explanation.
Ya they lied about a lot more contextually speaking Saudi Arabia should have the biggest Dino museum ever rofl oh wait they used them all in their refineries my bad. My guess is the word fossil fuel was not their marketing scam brain child lol😅
There were many things we were taught in school but we're too young and inexperienced to debate. Funny thing is these topics are avoided in university where young adults are more likely to push back
I did t believe it either ! Now I have been vindicated since I learned about abiotic oil. I never believed that the thread of a Colorado River made the Grand Canyon either. Then I learned about hydrology and the two giant lakes which actually formed the Grand Canyon ! I was also taught that driving a car was a privilege as most of us were. Doing some research I learned that it is a right, the right to travel. We don’t need a drivers license or yearly tags unless one uses the roads, OUR roads for commercial activity!
It’s amazing how much BS they tell kids !
I keep seeing that Titan (one of Saturn's moons) has oceans of methane. If fossil fuels come from organic material...how did this happen?
In the late 60's we were told that they knew that oil came from dinosaurs since bones were often found with the oil. The Le Brea tar pit was used as the example. Somewhere in my mid 40's a geologist overheard me repeating the story to my youngest boys and corrected me.
When at university in the early 90s, we went on several fossil digs in Montana and Wyoming.
When we were at the Kemmerer site, I commented that with all of the dinosaurs that died in the area, there sure must be a lot of oil underground there. Our professor said that there was, but very little of it would be from dinosaurs. He explained that most of the biomass that resulted in crude oil came from plants, mostly algae and plankton.
Yes but some oil was made from dinosaurs to when volcanos erupted and comet's buried billions of them all at once
Some oil did come from dinosaurs
Not all but some
But definitely not none
@@johnnyLeestarkey0369 no just no. you REALLY need to rethink that
@@Themrine2013 I did think you just blindly listen to the video
Your follow up question should've been, "how did algae and plankton find its way into all of these landlocked fields? A massive flood maybe 😉 🙏🏽 ?!?"
@@nickolaslewis4416 because algae doesn't exist in ponds, of course
In an up to the 1970's we were taught the oil from Dinosaur thing. It was about 1983 when I got into the Navy as a Jet Engine Mechanic and I had an uncle that worked where they pumped Natural Gas into Wyoming. He was the first to tell me that oil is a mineral, and that it didn't come from Dinosaurs.
It’s the same reason anyone thinks “beer belly” is literal instead of simply alliteration.
If you’re fat, it’s because you consume more calories than you burn. The source of those calories is completely irrelevant.
It's what's taught in school, in the lower grades, but never revisited later on. Oil is plants, mostly from marshes
It’s taught in school? Are you American?
Really? In what schools to they make that claim? Definitely none in my country as far as I know.
@@angrydoggy9170 it's what was taught when I was in those grades back 30 years ago.
I can't tell you what my kids are learning now, but I know what they're being told, and it's a lot of woke stupidity.
Cuz you know... 🧪
@@demcomp Really now? You’re worried about some “woke” messages (whatever that means) but you’re not bothered by that dinosaurs to oil nonsense?
@@AcornElectron it isn’t necessarily in the curriculum but if you ask a teacher it’s the answer you’d get
Hey, Gilles, check your dino research! The Brontosaurus genus was brought back in 2015 after reanalysis of fossil evidence. Up until that point it had been thought to be a mistaken conflation of mostly Apatosaurus bones, but that is no longer considered the case. ^_^
Sorry…it’s all dubious at best and fraud at worst.
The most disgusting part of it is when they state as fact things they do not know at all.
How about doing a video on the process of refining crude oil? It's pretty simple, but interesting.
Also answer why used oil from cars isn't cleaned and recycled.
Stripping hydrogen and carbon atoms from each other and then recombining them to make product is anything but simple.
I work for NJR/NJNG a utility/technology company in the North East. We have GIANT salt caverns in Tennessee I believe where we store our Natural Gas(methane) we don’t get into the business of extracting it from the Earth because that is where the most risk lies. We do however store it, transport it, and service utilities that are crucial infrastructure for security, safety, and QOL. To picture it we have essentially a Gas division I like to call it that services Gas lines in the ground, leaks, meter reading, etc. a plumbing division(where I work) we do gas as well just smaller diameter pipe from street to house, water heaters, boilers, combis, and other plumbing issues, etc. we do so by THE BOOK as to filter out as many carcinogenic minerals and materials in water and to not cross contaminate and correct old issues in old houses(not up to code) we also have an electrical division that does solar, generators, and does electrical for every other division, last but not least we have a HVAC division that installs furnaces/heating and cooling and things of the likes. Our last working division is our service techs which handle a little of everything(troubleshooting/part repair) that’s not even getting into the corporate side. I believe we are considered a fortune 1000 or 500 company can’t remember but it was quite the experience coming from a small workplace to coming to a massive company
I don't know if anyone remembers the early 90's TV show called Dinosaurs. Featuring large scale dinosaur animatronic puppets created by Jim Henson. The main characters were the Sinclair family. I now know why. I love when writers make neat connections like this.
I loved that show, NOT THE MOMMA!!
I was about to write: not the mama! But I can see I was beaten to the punch. Twice!
In my collection I have two AM pocket radios in the form of gasoline pumps.(Circa 1960s vintage) One is from Sunoco the other is from Sinclair. The station indicator is where "gallons" would be on actual gas pumps. The Sinclair one does have "Dino" on the logo.
What's weird to me is who first found oil and thought, 'aah, yes, a perfect lubricant' up through, 'I've made an engine that needs ancient dead microorganisms to run?' That's the part that always blows my mind.
Some alien sh#t
Intriguing thought process there, I like it. But I think we both know that was probably not the chain of events, tho, certainly would be hilarious if it were.
Not a besserwisser moment, I just googled it(ur welcome), your comment just got me curious to find out how it went down; roughly speaking, we MOSTLY used a shit ton of animal fat(imagine the smell when that goes rancid, oof) for ages, but also used veg oils pretty early on too. We seemingly didn't use much else until a short while before we found oil, when we started to use mineral oils. Then all hell broke loose in 1859, when the first oilwell was drilled.
For reference, the first "car"(the horseless carriage) was made 1805 and was driven by steam, before that, a metic shit ton needed lubrication, like: waterwheels, chariot/wagon wheels, portcullises, drawbridges, rowlocks, windmills, etc.
They tried just slopping on raw crude oil as a lubricant, but animal products were better, sperm whale oil was the bees knees apparently. Wasn't until 1877 they started producing synthetic lubricants from oil, then it was of to the races... presumably.
🌈The more you know🌈
Sorry for try-harding, something is wrong with me, I know! 🥺
Other plant-based oils such as olive oil and rapeseed oil were used thousands of years ago, in addition to animal fats. The similar properties were probably noted at some point. I recall reading someone had the revelation that the sticky, smelly waste could be used as a lubricant and a fuel (before which I believe whale blubber was the most popular.)
PS: If you search for "The Ultimate Historical Timeline of Mechanical Lubrication" on mil-comm, you and probably find a pretty good history.
My daughter and I muse over "firsts" like this with things/processes from history.
@@ConAnd81 we used blubber from whales for oil lamps before electricity was invented.
Simon, you have burst a knowledge bubble I have carried around for over 70 years. Glad I have a bunch of per-conceived notions I haven't robbed of. Interesting video, thanks for sharing.
The Oil Museum in Stavanger, Norway also features dinos. Not because they try to tell us oil comes from dinosaurs but because they've found a single dinosaur toe bone in a drilling core from the North Sea oil fields. 🙄 Probably a dead dino that got washed to sea with a flood and then deposited with other sediments.
I had always heard it came from dinosaurs and was surprised a few years ago when I first started learning that it did not. This means that oil is a renewable resource! It might take millions of years, certainly, but still, that means that there should be new oil created every day from this process that has been going on for millions upon millions of years. Of course we might be consuming it faster than it can recreate itself, but still the point is, it is a renewable resource.
Technically, every resource is renewable if you're willing to wait long enough
It’s also one of the most abundant liquids on the planet next only to water. And yes it is quite renewable.
Takes millions of years....? Yet it is made in laboratories in a week. And empty oil deposits are opened back up a decade later completely full.
@@IHateTH-cam25 I never heard any of that. That is interesting. I'll have to investigate.
I think it was Exxon that made a cartoon commercial where such a brontosaurus was pulling plants (for food) from the ground and turned it into an oil-pumping machine. A tiny bit of truth buried in a lot of fiction.
A guy i met once had written books on the subject. Did studies anyways. He said the earth makes oil naturally. But at the rate in wich we use it the earth cannot replenish it fast enough. Its a natural occurrence like anything else but it cannot replenish fast enough like many things on the planet that we depleted
I've always had this theory, no idea how I could ever prove it or even test it, lol.
I've been to see the dinosaurs on display here in Texas many times as a child. ☺️ They are amazing and part of the highlight reel in my memories. 😅
I have 12 gallons of them in my gas tank.
@@OakInch you put fiberglass into your gas tank?!? 😱 That can't be good for your car. 😆😅😝
I played with an inflatable Sinclair dinosaur as a toddler.
We believe it because it’s fun and whether it came from flora or fauna doesn’t really change how we view it as a resource
Well said.
It does tho, flora is like 1 bazillion times more abundant than fauna.
It does change how we view how plentiful it is.
Love the TIFO series!
However this was a particularly odd one for me, as the main thing I found out was that there are people who think oil comes from dinos. In my 4 decades I don't recall ever coming across an instance of someone appearing to think that was the case. Maybe, like a lot of pop culture phenomena, it's an American thing?
Yes, pretty much. Why ruin a perfectly good lie? 'Merica!
I had an in-depth conversation w a science t’cher here in Cda just before Christmas 2022 and she vehemently argued w me that fossil fuel does indeed come from dinosaur’s bones. There was NO reasoning w her, so there are still myths and lies being taught as current curriculum.
Yes, here in the US, people will literally debate the pros and cons of putting synthetic oil vs "dinosaur oil" in your car.
in the 1970s there was at least one paper published by a USSR scientist that explained that petroleum was from an igneous source not organic depositions.
Great video. Oil's versatility is amazing and a cornerstone for our ability to advance for millennia to come in all facets of life.
Lmfao, good joke, that was funny
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turning plants into alcohol is easier than turning meat into alcohol. Makes sense. I kind of like the idea that the oil is made continually from subterranean ecosystems. Not likely, but it would be kind of cool if my wild theory was true, as it would mean the resource is renewable. Also, would be a new subfield of science. I think the movie Monster Truck used that idea, come to think of it.
Oil is part of the carbon cycle. Carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the universe. I think we just need to come up with a more efficient way to use it.
Oil has been produced and found by observing the abiotic methods of oil production.
That means it is not produce from anything animal, vegetable or plant in origin. It is produced naturally from far below anything that’s has ever seen daylight. The drilled oil wells have become deeper because the oil is gone from pools with in sediments that have been there for millions of years. Some oil pools used to lay right on the surface known as tar pits. Today some wells are drilled below 4 miles the deepest being 8 miles or so.
The deepest shale levels are at 3 miles down. So oil is being produced far below any fossilized rock containing carbon.
Yes oil is slowly being pumped out of the ground and it’s becoming harder to find it in abundance but it is still being naturally produced as we speak. So is coal for that matter. But coal is not related to oil in that it’s produced from vegetation and animal remains. It’s the reduction of Carbon based vegetation like trees, animals, grass, algae and remains of forest fires. These become a bog that get covered by volcanic dust and sand these covered bogs get pressed into a negative oxygen zone and form a shale with a high carbon content….or…otherwise known as various grades of coal that lay very close to the earths surface. Many of these zones in fact have become exposed due to earth erosion and now lay open on the surface.
Oil on the other hand comes naturally from water, extremely hot minerals and gasses just above the second layer of earth. Earth has three layers: the crust, the mantle, and the core. The crust is made of solid rocks and minerals. Beneath the crust is the mantle, which is also mostly solid rocks and minerals, but punctuated by malleable areas of semi-solid magma. At the center of the Earth is a hot, solid, dense metal core.
Just above the second layer is an extremely inhospitable zone…extremely hot, under extreme pressure and has never been witnessed by man. This is where water acts and behaves like oil. It will not vaporize or boil because of the extreme pressure. Water being the best solvent on earth it desolates everything around it. As it cools its content stays in the form of a sticky mass known as crude oil. When naphtha and other lighter forms of oil are separated from crude oil you have bitumen or all the solid stuff that became dissolved in it as it was being made in that hot zone miles below the surface.
So oil is still being produced today from scratch. It doesn’t rely on any form of biomass. This story that it needs limestone is and will be proven to be just as invalid as saying it came from dinosaurs or that the northern lights are made by sunlight bouncing off the icebergs at the North Pole.
That being said….man pumping all the oil, (a natural lubricant needed by earths growing crust) is I believe going to cause a catastrophic event someday. Possibly enormous earthquakes well above 9 or 10 on the Richter scale and in areas not yet categorized as earthquake zones.
They I believe will not effect the earths atmosphere or climate but will destroy everything on the surface….much the same way as a massive flood. Very few people living in large cities will survive. It will devastate the population of man and drastically change the way we live. Coastal cities will have to deal with huge tidal waves possibly thousands of feet tall.
It will be the preverbal hairy dog shaking all the water off his fur from head to tail.
Man is ruining the earth and the earth’s creator will not tolerate it much longer.
One of my favorite hobbies is to ask those who call hydro carbons: fossil fuel, which prehistoric entities have traveled to Titan and Neptune to make fossil fuel there
They only need to travel to Uranus to get an unlimited supply of natural gas
Shhh you’ll upset the Swedish girl
@@whtkngofc *How Dare You !*
Sea Monkeys!
He said right in this video they're called fossil fuels because it's a reference to digging, not animals
I had already read an article on this origin of oil. But I had no idea about Sinclair Oil and it's connection. Very entertaining Simon.
I had one of those plastic injected dinosaurs from a machine when we headed down to Florida in the early 70's. My brother got one as well.
I think the machine fastinated my Dad as he was not one to spend money on frivolous things. He made an exception in this case.
"I think the machine fastinated my Dad" 😀I think that might be a fair guess and I can also understand your dad very much.
All I took away from this is that Simon, in all of his bearded glory, wants to cancel dinosaurs for a second time! Absolute mad lad!
Once I forgot a piece of chicken (the descendant of dinosaurs) in the kitchen for a couple of weeks, it became very oily and was turning dark like petroleum and I found out because it was producing natural gas, so how do you explain that?, *note: I didn't eat it (because I didn't want to be featured in a ChubbyEmu video).
Your insane
@@Name.......... or maybe I’m brilliant disguised as insane 🥸
@@macumbeiro_xxno, you're just insane
I hope this is a joke.
@@randomname4726 there’s only one way to know
The reason they say it comes from dinosaurs is so they can tell us that it's running out so they can jack up the prices.
So, the chances that there will ever be a world where oil is not entirely neccessary is absurd, but great vid Simon
I'm old enough to know where this myth probably comes from. At least in the United States. In the 1960s and 1970s there was a Shell Oil commercial that said, "put a dinosaur in your tank". It them had an animation showing a sauropod with its head sticking out of a cars gas tank. So the myth was spread by oil companies.
Deceptive marketing is as American as chattel slavery.
And somehow they started teaching it in American schools which is why I believed that till I was about 28. Went to elementary school in the early nineties btw
Not sure if it was a regional thing or not, but we were definitely told in school that oil came from Dinosaur bones. It's strange because some people I talk to were taught the same thing, and some never heard the concept before. However, it did permeate pop-culture in films like Disney's CARSA where the oil company is literally called DINO-CO and has a Dinosaur as their logo.
This video is false... Everyone knows that dinosaurs went to community cemeteries to die thus forming present day oil pockets.
Yeah. I live in Kansas. We were taught this myth exclusively in school. It was even in the science books.
Sinclair oil also has a brontosaurus for their logo.
I, like many young boys were and are still today, was obsessed with dinosaurs. I can't recall if the I learned the "oil is from dinosaur" myth from school or if it was from the many dinosaur books I had as a kid.
Thank you for educating us to what really happened!
Learning is fab, and Simon does it so well 👍
Wait, the brontosaurus wasn't a real dinosaur? I'm devastated.
Same, that was the biggest shocker for me
It is still real to me - it was my favorite
It sounds like it was reclassified in 2015 as a dinosaur again, I'm finding mixes of old and new articles online.
no it’s a real dinosaur but has a different name now called apatosaurus
That’s why you hardly hear that name anymore. I associate it with the 1950s. The Flintstones. Old dino movies with stop motion puppets.
This guy makes leeps in logic that are easily overlooked with his presentation style.
I love that every teacher I ever had in public school in the US thinks that oil is dinosaur squeezing. What else did they lie about? Seems like nearly everything.
...like, you'll use algebra every day, for the rest of your life...??
Did they lie, or did they learn it from others that taught them?
…more than two genders???
As if they taught us that Pluto was a planet lol
And remember that junk about touching baby birds!?!?
They were complicit in the lie for not using their freaking brains to think about it and realize when shit doesn’t make sense. The audacity of my teachers to call themselves educators, when I could often correct them myself in real time or prove them wrong with a quick google search.
I believed oil was made of dinosaurs because I was never taught otherwise and didn't really think that deeply about it.
Where did you get that from? It boggles the mind why anyone would spread that nonsense.
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@@angrydoggy9170 when I went Vegan, almost 8 years ago, my aunt, who was 40 then, literally said I couldn't drive a car then, because the oil that gasoline is made from came from dinosaurs.
So 🤷♂️
I'm not wanting to turn this into any kind of Vegan discussion, it was just a weird coincidental event that required the backstory. 🤜🤛
@@demcomp The word " Vegetarian" is an ancient Arapaho Indian word meaning " Bad Hunter". Therefore if one can't hunt well, he is a Vegetarian.
@@paulbrungardt9823 and blocked. Bravo
I have to correct people all the time when they say oil is dinosaurs …..
It's amazing how you could be that daft. I don't understand how it could even have happened. It's one thing not to know because you've never cared to ask. But to genuinely seek the answer and manage to end up dumber is an achievement in ineptitude.
@@SophiaAstatine you believe the algae turning into oil is easier to believe than dinosaurs? This was something told to us as children and reinforced several times. It’s funny you make it sound like people should know it sounds off. It sounds as off as algae turning into oil over spans of time humans can’t understand. We were told all kinds of wrong stuff that we had no way to check. Didn’t have the internet until I was like 19 lol. We just found out not long ago that Pluto wasn’t a planet. How daft that we thought Pluto was a planet without doing our own research
@@scrogfpv7443 Entirely different thing. Pluto was considered a planet in all scientific literature until a few years ago. Oil was never considered as coming from Dinosaurs. Btw, there was a thing you could use to research stuff before the internet called books. They could be found in something called a library.
@@scrogfpv7443 First of all, Pluto being a planet or not is not even slightly comparable. Whether Pluto is a planet or not, the universe does not care what names we give things and the definitions we assign, nor how we change them over time, which is ultimately what is at the root of the Pluto thing. Secondly, it is not the fact of whether or not it is any more or less believable, but that you were told seemingly intentionally provided with the wrong information, despite the fact that both the right and wrong answer would be equally useful to a child (IE, not at all, which is why I once again wonder why this topic comes up so frequently for American children that this stuff exists in the first place).
As for spans of time humans can comprehend, that interval is a lot lower than you realise. Gaps in time beyond a thousand years or so are pretty much incomprehensible to humans, and hence are usually represented in a visual format within which a comprehensible window of time is included to grant perspective(Which in itself is not comprehension)
Ultimately, what is completely daft is that some idiot thought that involving dinosaurs would in any way benefit or enlighten any children, or in any capacity improve how comprehensive the concept would be to said children. If anything, it displays complete ineptitude in terms of paedagogy and didatic methods, if not outright stupidity in the human who inflicted this stupidity on who knows how many generations.
Nice to discover that the the "Dinoco" gas company and the Sauropod logo in _Cars_ and _Toy Story_ were based on real events.
1:30 "Organic Matter"...Dinosaurs don't count as organic matter?
Some time ago I worked in the oil industry. on my first day my boss showed me a geological map. on the map it showed the oil reserves for the 100 sq. mile area I was working in. He explained that this one "pocket" had enough oil to power the entire country for the next 300 years. This was one pocket in a 5thousand mile area.
I have an oil pumper on my land that has been pumping since 1962 which still pays royalties. Often I muse just how deep and full that “pocket” must be. Also have a 2nd pumper 1/2 mile from that one and a gas valve in between those 2 pumpers.
So basically it's not at threat of running out and that lie needs to stop.
@@MrEliasdl the egg and baby food shortage isn't real from what I saw farmers were told to dump the eggs and milk
Also, the atmosphere is suffocating after millions of years of carbon dioxide being sucked from it and trapped under sediment. Plant life was almost dead when the industrial revolution started putting co2 back in the air where it belongs
I was a kid in the 70s and was taught that petroleum would soon run out. Still hasn't.
It is all just words, until you are holding the oil shale in your hands. I can't even state how cool it is to hold a core sample from over 10,000ft down in your own hands.
What kind of situation were you in that you got to experience this
@@BlueRidgeBubble I was one of the 6 roughnecks that drilled the core sample. The geologist thought I would like to see the fruits of our labors and let me hold a 12" piece of the sample.
@@jeramyh9344 Hah, fresh from the source. Pretty cool
I remember going to the rig with a few guys on a crew change to oversee core recovery. The company man walked right up to me and said 'You must be the geo', I asked him how he knew and he said 'Your helmet is clean' XD
I was taught this in public school in the mid 80’s to early 90’s. It was one form of organic matter that created fossil fuels, not the only. It was also used to explain why fossil fuels were going to run out and cause a massive collapse of humanity’s ability to function so we had to adopt recycling and alternative energy sources. As kids in school we were taught to believe our teachers because it was their job to properly educate us, and they supposedly knew more than our parents because many of our parents hadn’t gone to college but the teachers had. Same brainwashing techniques used today just different narratives being pushed in or out of our brains.
thousands maybe millions of years of plancton... that was wht I learned, a molecular sediment that compressed into petro. I found that more logic than beeing atual dinossaurs
People forget that plastic was championed by environmentalists as recycable, which is not always possible and has led to serious pollution from westerners giving their trash to other countries and being unable to dispose of them.
Those travelling dinosaur exhibits must have been awesome.
I started 1st grade in 1953. Within a couple of years, a discussion (or maybe it was just a Weekly Reader story) came up about dinosaurs. I vaguely remember a picture of some dinosaurs milling around what I thought was a pond. The teacher said it wasn't water but tar pits. She said the dinosaurs would get trapped in the tar pits, die, and over the millions of years after that, decay into crude oil. Even as a 7 or 8 year old, and with far fewer cars on the road than we have now, I thought "that sure is gonna take a helluva lot of dinosaurs." And even now, dinosaur fossils aren't being discovered at a hundred a day, are they? Little kids may not understand things or have the words to explain it, but they know a b.s. story when they hear one. I also knew the 'Santa thing' (Tooth fairy, too) was also b.s., but if it's gonna get me some presents, I'd be stupid not to go along with it. But a long time ago I quit receiving presents. He must've died, or something.
do dinosaurs contribute least of oil deposits we use now?
@@bennywins2930 ... Watch the video?
@@jamisojo yes but my question is, did sea dinosaurs(and every ocean dwelling animals) are not even a little bit of contribution to the oil we use today? Like 5 percent or 2 percent?
Dinosaurs do at least make up some oil
Not most but some
tar pits volcanos comet's all buried billions of dinosaurs
He said none but some did
Your teacher was at least half correct
He said none was made from dinosaurs
False
@@bennywins2930 thay contributed some oil yes tar pits volcanos and comet's buried billions of dinosaurs
Thay did make oil
But not as much as the oceans
But thay definitely made some oil
That we have used
To say that didn't is not correct
It's good to question things on the internet instead of just believing it
That's why some people think the earth is flat now
The internet
I have had my doubts since
Childhood.
The strata where many oil deposits are extracted are far deeper than organics have ever existed. Anybody ever hear of mineral oil?
I knew what you said for some time, but you Simon, have said it like I never heard before. Good Job!
I wondered about this for a long time after hearing about "methane-lakes" on ... Titan? I don't remember which moon or planet, but it's not Earth. So either they had "ancient animals that decayed", or fossil-fuels -- _which methane _*_absolutely_*_ is_ -- isn't purely a by-product of rotting life-forms.
Yeah well we were also told Florida would be under water by 2015 by melting ice caps.
When it comes to basic necessities like energy and food it always amazes me how little anyone knows about how it’s
Produced. Part of the reason the ideologs and environmental activists can get away with what they are
Aren't those ideologs etc. pointing out that its not sustainable and the same time destructive.
@@johnwatters6922 at the end this BS "speculation" is the fantastic liberal hope fantasy that the use of fossil fuels will cease is shear IGNORANCE... EVERYTHING you see, own, and touch has been made either by the use of or the use with fossil fuels, including clothing, food products and packaging, medicines, solar panels and wind generators, and JUST EVERYTHING... we can't live without it...
When I was in grade school over 50 years ago, my teacher propogated the dinosour myth and stated "at the current rate of use, the world will be out of oil in 50 years." So, here we are, 50+ years later, at a much accelerated use of oil, and we still have abundant deposits of oil. It just shows me that those who speak with great authority about our world, speak what they know, which is very little. Nice little slice about how the use of oil is slowly killing the planet. Almost sounded like a plug for JSO.
Why do people still think their votes count?
I had one of those injection molded Dino’s from the world fair! First grade in school.
Later the brand disappeared on the east coast .
Years later driving across country in the Midwest I saw a Sinclair station and got excited like a kid!
My children had no idea why.
I explained the Flintstones Dog Dino and the Sinclair mascot ran together in kids minds plus the World Fair model I had.
Too cold to start a fire
I'm burning diesel, burning dinosaur bones
Yeah, I'll take the river down to still water
And ride a pack of dogs
I just entered “how did we figure out where oil comes from?”
I’m convinced you were put here to answer every question any respectable number of people has ever asked google.
Fletcher Prouty Explains Invention and Use of Term "Fossil Fuels"
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I also recall my first grade teacher telling us the sun is the smallest star
Funny, mine told me it was either made up of multiple stars or it was one of the largest in the universe😂😂
I… literally looked this guy twice over the past five years. I remember distinctly looking it up bc its something i always knew but i heard it again in a movie or something and it just boggled my mind again how so many dinosaurs died in the same “pit” and became enough oil to pump out millions of gallons a day or week. When u google/youtube it and type it like “how dinosaurs become fossil fuels/oil” it will show u exactly that which further perpetuates the myth
Very briefly, the thing at the end about Brontosaurus not being its own dinosaur was considered correct... until recently. Marsh's initial mistake of naming the new discovery "Brontosaurus" when it was, in fact, an Apatosaurus was discovered pretty quickly within the first few years of the discovery in the 1890s, but the name Brontosaurus had already caught on. Paleontologists did not consider Brontosaurus to be a valid dinosaur for over a century, but in 2015 a study was published that concluded that, after comparing a lot of different sauropod fossils including the original Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus specimens, there was actually enough of a difference that Brontosaurus could be considered a valid genus of dinosaur distinct from Apatosaurus. Some paleontologists disagreed with the findings, and many still do, but the general consensus since 2015 is that Brontosaurus is, once again, a valid dinosaur.
I remember hearing this in school when I was growing up. I swear this was actually taught to some of us.