Re: The Myth of fossil fuels

Tapping into regions that out-gas regularly or violently could provide some stabilisation.

According to deep earth gas theory, the earth is continuously expelling fluids from great depths, including juvenile volatiles issuing from the mantle.
With regard to earth quakes Gold posits that these fluids wend their way up through cracks and fractures creating more in mainly an upward direction as the rock overburden diminishes and becomes less resistant to gas pressure fracturing.(the gas is less dense than the rock and therefore buoyant relative to it)
Such fractures then serve as conduits through the solid lithosphere.
By the time theses fluids reach near surface pressures, most will become invisible gases: methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and perhaps hydrogen, aswell as nitrogen, helium, and various trace gases such as radon.seeps of crude oil represent the visible, liquid fraction of upwelling fluids from the deep.

Gold continues and states that: I think that that upwelling fluids from deep in the earth, from regions of greater pressure than that exerted by rock over burden weight will have several earth-quake related effects. Specifically, they will create fractures and thereby change the previous stress patterns.
A sudden influx of gas from below will weaken rock creating new fractures suddenly and flow into fault lines reducing friction that previously held faces apart thus facilitating earthquakes in that manner too.
Pore spaces in lower rock layers may suddenly collapse after such an abrupt escape of fluid.
Such collapses offer sound explanation for the vertical displacement of chunks of crust during earth quakes and for volumetric changes in sea floor or continental shelf that would be needed to induce tsunamis.
In the great Alaskan earthquake of march 28 1964 for example, some stretches of land sunk within seconds by 30 ft
No other fluid other than gas could have supported rock then got out of the way in seconds......."

P 144 - deep hot biosphere

In AD 63 Seneca wrote "It is a favourite theory of most authorities that moving air is the cause of earthquakes"


It has occurred to me that if the rapid movement of gases from an area of accumulation under layers of rock in an upward thrust can cause stretches of land to fall 30 ft as mentioned above - Then what of the vast oil fields in the middle east and elsewhere.
Surely at some time, albeit slower - when they run out the void would or could possibly collapse!
even if only half empty - the upward thrust would be reduced (previously caused by the oil) by more than half.
So it could be taken to indicate further the theory that these oil fields are in fact all refilling!
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