Earth

Some oil pollution facts: Per year...

Big spills	37 million gallons
Routine maintenance	137 million gallons
Down the drain	363 million gallons
Up in smoke	92 million gallons
Off shore drilling	15 million gallons
Natural seeps*	62 million gallons

Big Spills: Only about 5 percent of oil pollution in oceans is due to major tanker accidents, but one big spill can disrupt sea and shore life for miles.

Routine Maintenance: Every year, bilge cleaning and other ship operations release millions of gallons of oil into navigable waters, in thousands of discharges of just a few gallons each.

Down the Drain: Used engine oil can end up in waterways. An average oil change uses five quarts; one oil change can contaminate a million gallons of fresh water. Much oil in runoff from land and municipal and industrial wastes ends up in the oceans. If you never really thought that oil from your car can really do damage, notice that this abuse of how it is disposed of is the number 1 source for oil pollution.

Road runoff adds up
Every year oily road runoff from a city of 5 million could contain as much oil as one large tanker spill. This is oil that drips from every car and truck that travels our roads. This also includes any petroleum by-product that may leach out of the material that our roads are made of.

Up in Smoke: Air pollution, mainly from cars and industry, places hundreds of tons of hydrocarbons into the oceans each year. Particles settle, and rain washes hydrocarbons from the air into the oceans. Cars not only burn of gas for pollution, but it is not uncommon for a car to burn a quart of oil every 1-3 thousand miles of driving. Cars that are mainly driven in the city tend to burn more because stop and go driving makes this happen.

Offshore Drilling: Offshore oil production can cause ocean oil pollution, from spills and operational discharges.

Natural Seeps*: Some ocean oil "pollution" is natural. Seepage from the ocean bottom and eroding sedimentary rocks releases oil.

It is claimed by science that the dinosaurs roamed the earth 100-200 millions years ago. And vegetation was on the earth way before that. And either one of these can decay and make crude oil under ground. So we will take the amount of natural seeps (62 million gallons), times it times the amount of time the material that would make this stuff was already on the earth. So 62 million times 200 million equals  12.8 billion gallons seepage. But we will give time to decay and cut the amount in half: 6.4 billion gallons.

If five quarts can contaminate a million gallons of fresh water, imagine how much water would be contaminated with 6.4 billion gallons of oil seepage over 200 million years. And even though oil pollution from cars is much greater, cars have not been around long. And just from the short time of the demand of oil for what we as humans do, it has already taken a toll on our environment. So if natural seepage went on for millions of years, the earth would have not been livable. Why?

Water is essential to life. Toxic water will not support life. So an old earth would have made the one ingredient needed for life (water), to toxic to support life.

So what do we have so far on pollution and the age of the earth?

Pollution	Supports old earth?	Supports young earth?
Global Warming	No	Yes
Volcanic ash amount	No	Yes
Black Smokers	No	Yes
Ice cores	No	Yes
Juvenile water	No	Yes
Natural oil seepage	No	Yes

Then we have crude oil that we drill for. Now if you look at how much under water seepage there is, it makes you wonder how long would it take for oil under ground to lose it's pressure. You see, everytime they drill for oil and find some. It's under such enormous pressure that it will spew in the air for several days, or even a week. Before it will stop. Being that the rock around it is not a perfect seal, and there is seepage. You'd think we could find one oil deposit without pressure. But, not one has been found. Every oil deposit that has been drilled into was under extreme pressure, So the extreme pressure confirms an young earth. If not, then someone needs to explain how that pressure stayed locked in that oil deposit for so long.