So, you probably thought that the right-wing atavists rejection of science was mostly about evolution and climate change, eh?

Well, there is always new wells of derp being drilled:

Oil Might Be a Renewable Resource, and Other Things You Did Not Know

[…] Meet John Skvarla, new secretary of the [North Carolina] Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR, to tarheels). To cut to the chase, here’s your takeaway idea: maybe oil is a renewable resource. And he doesn’t mean in the wait-45-million-years-and-we’ll-get-more sense.

“The Russians for instance have always drilled oil as if it’s a renewable resource,” says Skvarla. “And so far they haven’t been proven wrong.

“There’s a lot of different scientific opinion on that.”

Yep. There’s just TONS of scientists out there figuring that maybe oil is like those trick cups Barbies used to drink from, where you tilt them and the stuff vanishes, and then it magically fills back up when you set it down. TONS of scientists.

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Abiotic oil? Really?