Prabhupada, Bombay, January 19, 1975: “…Just like this airplane is flying in the air. Little discrepancy is immediately crash down. So he is getting so much credit, and the scientists also saying, “There is no need of God. Now we have solved all the questions.” But nobody is giving credit to Krishna who is floating millions and trillions of stars and planets in the air. So by taking Krishna’s stock, the petroleum or gas, we become scientist and fly the airplane, and Krishna has given the petrol, and He has no credit. He has no credit. That is the difference between demons and bhakta. A bhakta sees in everything presence of Krishna….”
“Petroleum — Curiouser And Curiouser”
New York Times: Could it be that many of the world’s oil fields are refilling themselves at nearly the same rate they are being drained by an energy hungry world? A geochemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, Dr. Jean K. Whelan, infers that oil is moving in quite rapid spurts from great depths to reservoirs closer to the surface. Skeptics of Dr. Whelan’s hypothesis say her explanation remains to be proved.
Discovered in 1972, an oil reservoir some 6,000 feet beneath Eugene Island 330 [not actually an island, but a patch of sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico] is one of the world’s most productive oil sources. Eugene Island 330 is remarkable for another reason: it’s estimated reserves have declined much less than experts had predicted on the basis of its production rate.
‘It could be,’ Dr. Whelan said, ‘that at some sites, particularly where there is a lot of faulting in the rock, a reservoir from which oil is being pumped might be a steady-state system — one that is replenished by deeper reserves as fast as oil is pumped out.’
The discovery that oil seepage is continuous and extensive from many ocean vents lying above fault zones has convinced many scientists that oil is making its way up through the faults from much deeper deposits …
A recent report from the Department of Energy Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development concluded from the Woods Hole project that ‘their new data and interpretations strongly suggest that the oil and gas in the Eugene Island field could be treated as a steady-state rather than a fixed resource.’
The report added, ‘Preliminary analysis also suggest that similar phenomena may be taking place in other producing areas, including the deep-water Gulf of Mexico and the Alaskan North Slope. There is much evidence that deep reserves of hydrocarbon fuels remain to be tapped.’
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