Joe Barton, with a smirk on his face, asked Sec. of Energy, Dr. Steven Chu to tell him how the oil under Alaska got there and he posted a video of Chus reply on YouTube claiming he "puzzled" Chu. Watch the YouTube video here:
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In his explanation, Dr. Chu mentioned that the oil was made as a result of complex geological processes taking hundreds of millions of years and also through the process of tectonic plates shifting.
Dr. Chu may have been puzzled but not by how he would answer the question but rather why would such a sophomoric question be posed in the first place.
In fact, tectonic plates did play a part and here's a video from HowStuffWorks of an Alaskan geologist answering the same question:
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/...
The geologist clearly states that tectonic plates shifting was what made it all happen.
I tried to leave a comment on Barton's YouTube page but of course the comments option had been disabled. Help me get this around so more people can see just how big a fool that pompous ignoramus Barton really is.