If there is supposedly a shortage of oil, why can't we simply clone the bloody substance? If scientists can clone dinosaurs from miserable scraps of ancient DNA, then why can't we clone fossil fuels also? After all, oil is merely black and drippy stuff from out of the ground, so it can hardly be more complex to copy than the genes of Dolly the sheep.
And even if such an operation is impossible, then why can't chemists just make a synthetic version that is extremely similarFrankly, I don't think it's an oil shortage we need to be worried about, but a shortage of thinking caps!
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you can make oil from coal--but usually it isn't cost effective
its a process called Fischer Tropes after the 2 German guys who invented it
Posted by: Mia Wolff | July 18, 2008 at 07:23
I just went the Convenience Store to get some CoffeeMate, because the milk keeps going bad in this hot weather. So if they can make synthetic coffee creamer, why not synthetic oil? Is this the kind of thinking cap you are hoping for? Of course if they did make synthetic oil, there might be a big storage problem.
Posted by: Lloyd Mintern | July 18, 2008 at 18:10
The reason why sheep are so easy for the scientists to clone is that sheep ARE clones, even when they have to go through the process on a natural basis. See? The resulting sheep is a clone regardless. That's why counting them all makes you fall asleep. etc. And who wants more oil, anyway? I'll be glad when it's gone.
Posted by: Thinkerbell | July 18, 2008 at 20:11
Oh, and you can't clone inert substances! Only living things, like sheep and people, and I agree completely with Thinkerbell.
Posted by: Lloyd Mintern | July 19, 2008 at 02:28