Brain Worcester

These are some pics taken last month during the Arts and Crafts Show. The good lookin' kid with me is my baby boy, Chad (now 38 years old). We were on some beach on San Juan Island. The two old dames on the couch with my granddaughter Alexis (Lexy) are my sisters, Suzy and Marcia.

Brian and Bill Baxter have been good friends since age 11.

Brian Worcester

Sandy King & Bill Baxter plus spouses

This picture was taken in Las Vegas, where Bill lives now. I don't remember which restaurant they were at. I think this was taken in June. From left Brent Gilhousen, Sandra (King) Gilhousen, Bill Baxter, and Leilani Baxter. Brent and Sandra live in California and as I understand it Brent is trying to, at least, semi-retire. Bill is retired, but his wife still works as a flight attendant for Southwest Airlines. I try to get down to see Bill about every 3 months.

Brian Worcester

Russ McGlenn

(The following is from our own Indiana Jones-McGlenn)

Oil is a Renewable Resource

by Russ McGlenn russmcglenn@juno.com

(In photos, Russ and Tricia McGlenn at their dinosaur dig in South Dakota.)

Oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico are being refilled with oil coming up from below the current oil fields. Russia has drilled over 400 eight mile deep wells into the Earth’s granite crust. This has worked so well that they worked in Vietnam and found oil off its coast where everyone said there was no oil. Oil used to be found in sedimentary rock at 2-3 miles deep, but the Russians found a new source.
What is happening? The Russians found that new oil was being made from hot molten rock called magma heating the basement rocks of the Earth’s crust. As the rocks are heated methane gas is distilled. This combines with carbonates and carbon 14 that occur naturally in rock, when these are mixed together, they form oil. It’s called Abiotc (non biological) because it does not come from vegetable matter.
The original theory of how oil was formed is that swamps filled with vegetation, (biomass) were covered with mud (called sedimentary rock once it hardened) and decayed over millions of years into coal or crude oil. This is called the Biotic Theory.
Oil is a renewable resource because it is being made today deep in the earth’s crust. We do not have an energy crisis we have a leadership crisis. One group says we are running out of energy so we have to cut back all that we do and will not allow us to drill for the new oil. This new group says we have plenty of oil, let us drill for it and use it. Write or call you congressmen and tell them your views. They are already feeling the heat from voters, keep the pressure on.
Here are articles about the Abiotic Oil:
Potential oil supply refill? Washington Times 5/29/02 Bruce Bartlett
On April 16, Newsday, the Long Island newspaper, published a startling report that old oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico were somehow being refilled. That is, new oil was being discovered in fields where it previously had not existed. (Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com

The world has more oil not less http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/596421/posts http://www.anxietycenter.com/ By Alan Caruba.

Vietnam http://www.geoscience.co.uk/geofrc/geobaseasia.html
Ongoing exploration activities (initiated in the 1970's) have proved the existence of oil and gas in basement reservoirs [in the granite crust RM] in the offshore area of South Vietnam. This has resulted in the discovery of several oil and gas fields including White Tiger (Bach Ho), Dragon (Rong) and Rang Dong fields.

Origins of petroleum: This site has a good over view of the issue and the chemistry involved.
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