From: Peter L. Peres <plp@ACTCOM.CO.IL>
>Very very very old oil is better known as coal, the best kind of it
there
>is. Not all coal is formed like that however.
>
>Peter
>

Coal can, I am informed,
(although my scientific training is not in this area :-)),
be made from common or garden bio-mass in a matter of months, given
proper conditions.

I am also informed that these conditions are "geologically
reasonable".

My informant, like Carl Sagan (:-)), might be wrong.

regards


            Russell McMahon