Look I just learn stuff that college teaches me okay. So decaying trees, plants and animals (dinosaurs) are the primary source of oil. Oil is being made daily based on decaying organic material. This is why the planet has so much of it.
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general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 9 hours agodinosaurs never became oil/coal
salty_chief@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
Useless shits
bigboitricky@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
not with that attitude
Nima@leminal.space 2 hours ago
some of them likely did, given the current theory of how oil happens. dead organic material is dead organic material.
there’s just more vegetation than animal matter.