I sure wish we would stop calling these “fossil fuels” ... they are not.
Thank you! I was just about to write the same thing.
In the USA we use 21 million barrels of oil each and every day. A barrel is like 42 gallons.
There is no way that many dinosaurs or plants lived and died to create that oil. Also some oil is found three miles BELOW the Gulf of Mexico. So, the surface of the earth increased three or four miles and the diameter got bigger? And how and when did that happen?
Like global warming, the myth of how "fossil fuels" came to be is such baloney.
Crude Oil actually contains microfossils.
USING MICROFOSSILS IN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/ONeill.html
Science Daily has a good definition for “Fossil Fuels” = Fossil fuel is a general term for buried combustible geologic deposits of organic materials, formed from decayed plants and animals that have been converted to crude oil, coal, natural gas, or heavy oils by exposure to heat and pressure in the earth’s crust over hundreds of millions of years.
Unlike nuclear fuel, wind generation, hydro generated power, or wood fuels, the key is: geologic deposits of organic materials, formed from decayed plants and animals.