>I'd love to see an investigation into fossil fuel accumulation over geological time scales - especially petroleum. From what I've seen, 10,000 barrels per year is a reasonable guestimate.

From what we know it's a very lumpy distribution. Most of the fossil fuels were created in a few specific points of history

The thing is that the supply of fossil fuel depends one's willingness to spend effort finding it. There's a virtually unlimited amount of methane on the ocean floor but harvesting it is not economically viable (fortunately).

US fracking technology allows otherwise unavailable heavy oil to be harvested but naturally at a higher price than Saudi light crude.

So solar tech, as it declines in cost, will replace a larger and larger portion of fossil fuels but not the entire spectrum of these some come out of the ground close to the form we need them in (solar asphalt is hard to imagine with subsidies).

Random question and memes-aside, is there oil on other planets?

Edit: GPT says hydrocarbons yes, oil as in Earth no (because that comes from complex living matter).

Edit 2: As far as we know, I really hope there's more life out there.

solar panels dont convert air into fuel