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Debunking fossil fuels myth

Hidden science: Oil produced without organic matter by SALLY DEAN

I READ an article by Carol Brouillet in Off-Guardian recently and was intrigued by what she had to say about Marijn Poels, a Dutch documentary filmmaker. Carol talked in glowing terms about his latest film The Primordial Code – The Burning Essence. Her review immediately resonated with me. She said the film ‘looks deeply into where we have come from, who we are and where we are going, as a species.’ So having watched this beautiful film, I was inspired to look at the rest of his output.

In 2018, he released The Uncertainty Has Settled, in which he investigates the roots of agriculture and how globalisation and climate politics have created radical changes in modern times. As the film progresses, Poels starts to question the green agenda and pulls together arguments from both sides. It is a well-balanced exploration but by the end of the film, he realises that the justification for a transition to ‘alternative’ energy sources is based on a false premise. His final interview is with Prof. Vladimir Kutcherov, a Swedish-based Russian geologist who introduces Poels to the theory of the abiotic origin (i.e. not organic in nature) of oil and gas. At this point my ears pricked up, as it took me back to something a friend – someone who had worked as an engineer in the oil industry – had said a few years ago: “We all knew that oil was self-replicating.”

Wanting to know more at the time, I acquired a book by Dr Jerome Corsi, published in 2012 entitled: The Great Oil Conspiracy – How the US Government Hid the Nazi Discovery of Abiotic Oil from the American people. Corsi claims Germany’s fuel requirements began to move in the opening decade of the 20th century from coal to petroleum. Without its own reserves of oil, the country could not progress as a viable industrial economy. So, in the early 1920s, two German chemists, Franz Fishcher and Hans Tropsch, replicated the natural process of oil production, which they believed occurred under intense pressure in the deep layers of the Earth. What became known as the Fischer-Tropsch process enabled Germany to produce synthetic oil from coal. At the start of the war, Germany had 14 synthetic fuel plants in full operation and six more under construction, producing approximately campaign with Dino the Dinosaur as its logo. At the 1964 New York World’s Fair, Sinclair’s Dinoland exhibit was one of the main attractions, and here Dino and eight more (life-sized) representations of other species of dinosaurs were exhibited and animated. Dino is just as popular today and his image appears not to have changed since the 1930s. The myth that oil and gas are fossil fuels derived from former plant and animals/ dinosaurs persists, and the public are still led to believe that they are scarce resources.

Over in England in 1982, the astronomer Fred Hoyle made his own opinion known when he said: “The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or If oil is abiotic, then was ‘Peak Oil’ [the idea that it’s running out) just a marketing scheme? All hydrocarbon fuels are produced naturally in the mantle of the Earth on a continuous basis without the involvement of any organic material 95 per cent of the aviation fuel used by the Luftwaffe. Corsi says that ‘what remains even today locked away within the Fischer-Tropsch equations is an understanding that all hydrocarbon fuels are abiotic in origin, produced naturally in the mantle of the earth on a continuous basis without the involvement of any organic material whatsoever…it presents a direct challenge to the fossil fuel theory of the origin of oil.’

As an aside, a film called The Formula was released in 1980 starring Marlon Brando and George C Scott. The brief synopsis on IMDb reads: ‘The synthetic fuel production formula, invented by the Nazis at the end of World War Two, is sought by some who aim to sell it, and by others who wish to destroy it.’ Hidden in plain sight? In Russia, an outspoken proponent of the abiogenic origins of oil was Nikolai Kudryavtsev, a Russian petroleum geologist. By 1951, he had articulated what today has become known as the Russian/Ukrainian theory of deep, abiotic petroleum origins.

Dozens of Russian scientists have followed his lead, stating that the chemical processes by which hydrocarbons are produced were a natural product of the Earth itself, manufactured at deep levels where there never were any plants or animals. They concluded that abundant oil could be found in Russia if only wells were drilled deep enough. Two years after my initial investigation, I am listening to Poels talking to Kutcherov and my interest in this subject is reignited. Investigating further, I stumble upon Colonel L Fletcher Prouty, a Pentagon insider with 23 years’ military experience who, in various interviews following his retirement revealed some of the inner workings of the American government’s clandestine operations. He was fictionalised as ‘Mister X’ in Oliver Stone’s 1991 film JFK. In a 1994 interview, he emphatically states that oil is a self-replicating substance, it is the second most prevalent liquid on Earth, and no fossils were required to make it.

He goes on to state that no fossil is found below 16,000 ft and drilling for oil generally starts at 30,000 ft.

The concept of fossil fuels being derived from formerly living matter was cemented in the minds of the American public by oil companies such as Sinclair Petroleum. In the 1930s, it developed an advertising biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been entertained by substantial numbers of persons over an extended period of time.” Returning to Poels’s interview with Kutcherov, which is where I began, the Russian geologist explains, with the help of a flip chart and pen, how infinite quantities of oil and gas are produced 100 to 200km below the surface of the Earth. Poels, a little bemused, states: “We could live in balance and peace with oil…which would economically and politically change the world on such a big scale I can’t imagine.” Kutcherov pauses for a moment and then says: “Correct.” Poels then asks: “Why am I not seeing this or reading this in the mainstream media?” Kutcherov smiles: “Your question is your answer.”

FURTHER READING The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels, Thomas Gold Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil, Jerome R Corsi and Craig R Smith The Great Oil Conspiracy: It has been known since the end of WWII that oil is not a fossil fuel; it is abiotic: https://tinyurl.com/48m369ua L. Fletcher Prouty: Oil is not a fossil fuel; it is the second most prevalent liquid on Earth: https://tinyurl.com/ysnvtn7c

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