You could say they are still the dominate species on the planet. They ghosted us for a bit during the Dark Ages, then came back with a vengeance
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bier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Gotta keep up the oil prices so the us can export there expensive fracking oil because our whole society is built on liquid dinosaurs
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Suddenly an upside to the fact that I was too poor to learn to drive in my 20s. Now in my 30s and still can’t drive so oil prices really don’t matter to me.
Already got rainwater harvesting, could do with solar/battery though as my only alternative for heating is a small wood fire and hot water bottles.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It matters to you. This will increase all prices in society, due to global trade and just in time supply networks
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
It won’t increase my mortgage, everything else is pretty cheap in comparison.
3abas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well, as your spending power decreases because of everything getting more expensive, your mortgage is there relatively more expensive than it used to be.
Even fixed costs are more expensive because your money is worth less and you need more of it.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I’ll be that guy - fun facts time!
Coal comes from the carboniferous period and is really just anoxic transformation of layers and layers of old peat bog covered by sedimentation and transformed by heat, pressure and geologic time ~ 300 Ma.
Oil and gas come from the mesozoic era which was the time of the dinosaura clade, but the carbon in the oil comes from marine deposits of phyto and zooplanktons. - 252-65 Ma.
No actual dinos in fossil fuel. Weird I know. I also know you likely didn’t care to hear any of this, but like I said, I’m that guy.
kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 1 day ago
i ve been lyied to my whole life