The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for April 05, 2012

Hang in there guys, and some day you’ll be rich… or worth $100 a barrel yourselves.

Actually, in less than 70 million years. So not that long.

That Really burns them up.

Dinosaurs! I thought we got oil from Bee Pee?

It sure is taking its sweet time emerging. Is there an estimated time of emergence?

Ah, Uncle Ty. When was the last time we saw him? Seems like Ages!

Oh, interesting Civilized dinosaurs calculating the values of themselves … in a billion years.

A fuel and his money are soon parted.

Good one Dogsniff.

I wonder if his wife’s name was Diluvian, that would have made her their Aunty Diluvian

Or will he “coal-ess”?

Looking at the “heirs,” there ought to be some DNA testing. Or maybe uncle really got around.

’you’ll get nothing,and like it!"

good luck

Most oil preceded the dinosaurs: Permian, Pennsylvanian, etc.

Nephew “Steg” is sore…. oils well that ends well…

and you’ll have some prime waterfront property along the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico, Prince William Sound, Alaska, Tobago, West Indies, Saldanha Bay, South Africa….so on and so on..

DS, thanks for the kind words yesterday. I was beginning to think you didn’t care.

“Now that I think about it, crude was around before dinosaurs. Look at all the fossils they have found at the La Brea tarpits in southern California.”Your time scale is skewed . . . the animals found in the La Brea tar pits are all Pliocene/Pleistocene, so, only from about 100,000 to 10,000 years ago. The dinosaurs lived from about 200 million years to 65 million years ago.As @malpot and @hippogriff mentioned, most fossil fuel is plant-based, and most comes from (pre-dinosaur) 350 million to 200 million years ago. There was an enormous amount of dead vegetation lying around in those ancient eras, mostly because few large animals had yet evolved to eat it!

Idmff: The Rancho la Brea formation is so recent that humans were already in existence then – but hadn’t walked and/or paddled over to that hemisphere yet. Or else had barely arrived and contributed to the extinction of the species found there.

Wonder what we’ll be.

lizards, lawyers…yeah, there’s devolution