WEBVTT 00:00.140 --> 00:08.969 Over the 160-year history of oil production, it has been claimed countless times that oil reserves will soon run out, only 00:08.969 --> 00:18.180 for a new date for “peak oil” (the point at which global production reaches its maximum) to be set shortly thereafter. 00:18.180 --> 00:25.117 How can you be wrong so often? Or has the oil perhaps been replenished? 00:25.117 --> 00:31.597 In fact, there are experts—such as the bestselling authors Dipl.-Ing. Hans-Joachim Zillmer and 00:31.597 --> 00:35.695 geographer Prof. Werner Kirstein—who go even further: 00:35.695 --> 00:41.609 In her opinion, the much-touted depletion of reserves is merely being used to 00:41.609 --> 00:47.039 artificially drive up oil prices by citing a shortage. 00:47.039 --> 00:52.429 You'll find out how they arrived at this conclusion in this documentary. 00:52.429 --> 00:58.320 Let's start by discussing the importance of petroleum to us humans. 00:58.320 --> 01:06.719 Since the beginning of industrial oil production in 1859, a fundamental structural transformation has taken place in Europe, 01:06.719 --> 01:11.600 which can be regarded as the foundation of our wealth today. 01:11.600 --> 01:18.265 As a fuel for machines, petroleum has since provided mobility, heat, and electricity. 01:18.265 --> 01:25.028 As a raw material, it is used to manufacture countless products that have become an integral part of 01:25.028 --> 01:29.718 our lives, such as plastic, paints, and fertilizers. 01:29.718 --> 01:39.938 While global oil consumption stood at 6 million barrels (159 liters each) per day in 1945, by 2012 it had risen to 01:39.938 --> 01:45.703 88 million barrels—equivalent to 44 supertankers per day. 01:45.703 --> 01:52.040 Crude oil is therefore the most important energy source and the foundation of the global economy. 01:52.040 --> 01:58.460 An adequate supply of petroleum is of paramount importance to humanity. 01:58.460 --> 02:08.276 While a barrel of crude oil cost about $2 in the 1960s and was still available for $10 as 02:08.276 --> 02:14.660 recently as 1999, it reached a peak of $148 in 2008. 02:14.660 --> 02:20.656 This raises an important question: What caused this enormous price increase? 02:20.656 --> 02:31.574 After all, high oil prices have a negative impact on the global economy and ultimately affect every single person. 02:31.574 --> 02:36.026 An oil crisis despite a surplus of oil? 02:36.026 --> 02:43.020 According to studies by historian Dr. Rüdiger Graf, until around 1970, petroleum was a cheap 02:43.020 --> 02:47.420 and seemingly inexhaustible source of energy. 02:47.420 --> 02:55.405 That didn't change until the 1973 oil crisis, during which the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC for 02:55.405 --> 03:04.738 short) sought to force international oil companies to pay higher prices for the right to produce oil in their countries. 03:04.738 --> 03:10.751 By reducing production, it put pressure on the global economy, which is heavily dependent 03:10.751 --> 03:14.480 on oil; prices rose and fuel became scarce. 03:14.480 --> 03:18.612 There were car-free Sundays and empty highways. 03:18.612 --> 03:24.020 Since then, the price of oil has never fallen back to its previous level, and we have been repeatedly 03:24.020 --> 03:28.932 reminded that we need to reduce our oil consumption. But why? 03:28.932 --> 03:36.982 In fact, however, production volumes have risen steadily from 0.3 million metric tons 03:36.982 --> 03:42.057 in 1861 to 4,630 million metric tons in 2018. 03:42.057 --> 03:50.190 According to Dr. Rüdiger Graf, there is no reason to assume that this important resource will soon become unavailable. 03:50.190 --> 03:55.346 This outcome is being brought about solely by political and economic factors. 03:55.346 --> 04:00.845 He says, word for word, “The problem isn’t that we don’t have enough oil. The problem has 04:00.845 --> 04:05.369 always been—and still is—that we have too much oil.” 04:05.369 --> 04:10.815 Textbook Theory on the Formation of Crude Oil Resting on Shaky Ground 04:10.815 --> 04:17.525 School and college textbooks, such as the “Purves” biology textbook, teach that petroleum is of fossil origin. 04:17.525 --> 04:21.197 It is not widely known what this theory is based on. 04:21.197 --> 04:29.136 NEXUS magazine writes: “In 1757, Russian geoscientist Mikhail Lomonosov was the first to 04:29.136 --> 04:33.470 claim that petroleum was of fossil origin.” 04:33.470 --> 04:42.191 His hypothesis, based on his own observations and the limited scientific knowledge of his time, was as follows: 04:42.191 --> 04:48.136 “Crude oil is formed from the tiny bodies of animals that are trapped in sediments and, under enormous 04:48.136 --> 04:55.814 pressure and high temperatures, transform into crude oil over unimaginably long periods of time.” 04:55.814 --> 05:01.907 Two and a half centuries later, Lomonosov's hypothesis has almost attained the status of an ideology. 05:01.907 --> 05:06.485 But has it been confirmed by experiments in the meantime? Not at all. 05:06.485 --> 05:09.766 In the Wall Street Journal, we can read: 05:09.766 --> 05:17.052 “Although humanity has been drilling for oil for generations, little is known about the origin of these deposits or 05:17.052 --> 05:21.900 the processes by which they formed deep within the Earth.” 05:21.900 --> 05:25.993 The Non-Biological Formation of Petroleum 05:25.993 --> 05:32.655 The little-known abiotic theory of the origin of petroleum and natural gas has already been mentioned as a possible explanation 05:32.655 --> 05:36.431 in several historical editions of the Brockhaus Encyclopedia. 05:36.431 --> 05:42.368 "Abiotic" or "abiogenic" means that no living organisms are involved in its formation. 05:42.368 --> 05:51.114 Unlike the theory of fossil oil formation, this theory posits that hydrocarbons such as methane are formed inside many celestial 05:51.114 --> 05:55.923 bodies through the combination of carbon and other elements. 05:55.923 --> 06:00.923 Methane is the main component of natural gas and a precursor to crude oil. 06:00.923 --> 06:07.134 In several scenarios, experiments showed that methane could be extracted from rocks alone. 06:07.134 --> 06:12.821 To this end, the rocks were subjected to conditions such as those found in the Earth's mantle. 06:12.821 --> 06:18.210 On the other hand, however, it was not possible to produce oil from plant and animal materials in the 06:18.210 --> 06:21.931 laboratory that resembled naturally occurring petroleum. 06:21.931 --> 06:28.353 Scientific experiments thus prove that hydrocarbons can form through abiotic reactions. 06:28.353 --> 06:38.409 In contrast, according to Prof. Werner Kirstein, there is still no evidence to date for a biotic or fossil origin. 06:38.409 --> 06:41.696 Natural gas in abundance 06:41.696 --> 06:46.275 Surprisingly, methane has been detected all over the ocean floor. 06:46.275 --> 06:51.361 According to Dipl.-Ing. Hans-Joachim Zillmer, such gas emissions are found particularly along 06:51.361 --> 06:54.540 all the fault lines of the continental plates. 06:54.540 --> 07:03.380 They are found in approximately 1,600 mud volcanoes on land and in countless large holes and craters all over the seafloor. 07:03.380 --> 07:07.650 For example, the seafloor of the North Sea is also dotted with methane craters. 07:07.650 --> 07:13.780 Methane is released in all sorts of places around the world and is abundant. 07:13.780 --> 07:18.112 So there is certainly no shortage. 07:18.112 --> 07:21.470 Methane Detected in Space 07:21.470 --> 07:27.419 Methane has also been detected spectroscopically—that is, by analyzing cosmic radiation—on 07:27.419 --> 07:31.134 Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. 07:31.134 --> 07:39.157 Saturn's moon Titan is particularly striking; huge lakes of liquid methane have been discovered on its surface. 07:39.157 --> 07:42.900 Methane appears to be widespread throughout the universe. 07:42.900 --> 07:49.231 According to the scientists, however, none of the celestial bodies mentioned ever had any flora or fauna that 07:49.231 --> 07:52.892 could explain a biotic—that is, fossil—origin of methane. 07:52.892 --> 07:57.820 So where does the methane on this planet come from? 07:57.820 --> 08:01.634 Self-renewing oil fields 08:01.634 --> 08:05.345 Can oil fields regenerate? Yes! 08:05.345 --> 08:11.189 According to the latest research, as Prof. Kirstein says, this is possible and, in fact, happens quite often. 08:11.189 --> 08:18.767 It turned out that oil can rise from great depths and replenish deposits that have already been exploited. 08:18.767 --> 08:22.767 Laboratory tests can confirm that it is new crude oil: 08:22.767 --> 08:30.251 The newly surfaced crude oil has a different composition than the previous batch, and it contains different microbes. 08:30.251 --> 08:37.009 If petroleum were formed through biological processes, it could only have originated from dead organisms once. 08:37.009 --> 08:42.840 However, the observed replenishment of these reservoirs is much more likely to be explained by 08:42.840 --> 08:46.618 continuous abiotic production in the Earth's core. 08:46.618 --> 08:50.517 Why are microbes found in crude oil? 08:52.080 --> 08:58.936 Crude oil contains countless dead microbes and bacteria, which, according to prevailing theory, are regarded as 08:58.936 --> 09:05.712 evidence that crude oil originated from these very organisms—that is, that it must have a biological origin. 09:05.712 --> 09:13.939 But what if these microorganisms live there, several kilometers below the surface, where the oil is stored? 09:13.939 --> 09:21.298 What if they die simply because of the pressure difference during oil extraction, since they can't withstand it? 09:21.298 --> 09:26.980 Astrophysicist Prof. Gold came up with this idea, and others followed suit. 09:26.980 --> 09:31.260 To confirm his theory, he conducted an experiment: 09:31.260 --> 09:39.306 Using a pressure vessel, he extracted fresh crude oil from deep underground and analyzed it in the lab. And what did he find? 09:39.306 --> 09:44.118 Living microbes and bacteria that had never been seen before! 09:44.118 --> 09:51.675 He saw this as proof that microbes and bacteria live in and on crude oil because it is their source of 09:51.675 --> 09:57.408 sustenance, and not that the crude oil is produced by them. 09:57.408 --> 10:03.400 Fossil sites at extremely great depths contradict the theory of fossil formation 10:03.400 --> 10:12.728 Oil was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico at a depth of 5,600 meters below the seafloor and at a depth of 10,500 meters. 10:12.728 --> 10:16.384 It is impossible for a fossil to have formed at such a depth. 10:16.384 --> 10:22.287 According to Prof. Kirstein, if the oil were of fossil origin, it would not be stable at this 10:22.287 --> 10:26.565 depth due to the high pressure and high temperature. 10:26.565 --> 10:31.142 Hans-Joachim Zillmer, M.Eng., concludes: 10:31.142 --> 10:38.708 "If the theory of the abiotic formation of crude oil and natural gas is correct, the geopolitical and economic 10:38.708 --> 10:43.290 implications would be virtually impossible to predict." 10:43.290 --> 10:50.079 Wars over oil would be a thing of the past, and high prices would fall. 10:50.079 --> 10:56.807 "In short, all of humanity would be better off." 10:56.807 --> 11:03.103 Provided that humanity is informed of this and the oil is actually made available. 11:03.103 --> 11:11.423 But why do school and college textbooks still teach that petroleum is formed from fossil remains? 11:11.423 --> 11:19.499 Could it be that certain people or groups have no interest in humanity learning that oil—and 11:19.499 --> 11:25.153 thus energy—is available in unlimited quantities? 11:25.153 --> 11:30.411 More than 1,000 people make Kla.TV possible through their volunteer work. 11:30.411 --> 11:33.078 Independent of profit and unaffiliated! 11:33.078 --> 11:36.460 Get your free subscription! 11:38.078 --> 11:46.267 Hey, can you believe it? I heard that people think oil was formed because so many of our ancestors died millions of years ago! 11:46.267 --> 11:51.360 Hahaha! Really? I can't believe it! 11:51.360 --> 11:57.394 If they knew that we depend on oil, their whole worldview would change!