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[–] salty_chief@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Don’t worry mankind and animals are the next fuel for the future cars!

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago

The ultimate fantasy of causing the extinction of a whole village by driving to work

[–] antrosapien@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

What a poetry Mankind on a killing spree for oil ending up becoming the oil

[–] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

dinosaurs never became oil/coal

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago
[–] salty_chief@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] bigboitricky@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

not with that attitude

[–] Nima@leminal.space 1 points 2 weeks 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.