The Media and academics keep calling hydrocarbons "fossil fuels." Why?

If you pay attention you may have heard the Lying Leftist Mainstream Media and all Democrat pols call oil, gas and coal "fossil fuels."  Now why do ya suppose they call 'em that, eh?

Try asking 'em.  Most don't know, but a few know that the reason is that the "experts" have always thought oil, gas and coal came from dead dinosaurs (hence "fossils").

People who actually knew something about oil and gas fine-tuned that by saying "Well ANY organic matter, like one-celled ocean organisms or plant matter, can turn into oil if given a few million years under the right conditions of heat and pressure."

But it turns out virtually none of the oil and gas on the planet came from either dinosaurs or one-celled ocean critters or plants, but from methane--CH4--what you know as "natural gas."  It's the simplest "hydrocarbon"--carbon plus hydrogen.

See, if you hook 8 molecules of CH4 together, you get high-octane gasoline.  Connect a few more and you get a huge array of combustible hydrocarbons.  And it turns out that if you force CH4 through rocks with extremely small pores, under lots of pressure, the CH4s link up automatically.

An early relative of this process was discovered and patented way back in 1925 and improved over the next 15 years.  It was called the "Fischer-Tropsch process," and in WW2 Germany began making tons of high-octane aviation gasoline, oil and diesel fuel this way.  By the end of the war Germany was making over 124,000 barrels of synthetic fuel a DAY, providing over 90% of their aviation gasoline and half of their total oil. 

Again, they were NOT refining oil, but instead were making oil and gasoline from carbon and hydrogen atoms--the same atoms that make natural gas. 

This process has been made even more efficient by forcing methane thru rocks having extremely small pores.  The process can be tweaked even more by using an iron catalyst.

The Earth has plenty of high-pressure methane, plenty of small-pore rock formations and lots of iron.  So tens of thousands of locations produce oil of varying "weights."  And in many more locations we find unequivocal evidence that oil was present at some point, but over time it escaped to the surface.

If you're skeptical, consider this: On Earth methane is a gas, but at extremely low temps it's a liquid.  And 20 years ago on one of the moons of Saturn, a U.S. satellite found unequivocal evidence of oceans--not of water but of liquid methane.  

Now it's certainly true that plant and animal matter decomposes into methane.  But how would life evolve on a frozen moon of Saturn to make enough plant or "dinosaur" matter to make oceans of methane?  If, as the Media and your teachers have always taught, all hydrocarbons come from dinosaurs or ocean critters or plants, how did any of those things live on Titan? 

We're all ears, academics.