Oil is not a fossil fuel
It should be common sense but somehow this lie just keeps going on and on. What happens to trees and plants when they die? Do they get buried thousands of feet underground near the earths core and become smashed into oil? No they actually decay right on the surface of the earth and turn right back into dirt. Dirt is made up of decayed animal and plant remains but oil is not.
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Plants make coal. Animals make oil.
Yes an lot of fossil fuels are derived from thebodies from dead microorganisms. Remember that multicellular life was unknown forseveral hundred million years.
Oil does not come from what happens in a high, dry, inland forest. As "Croc" ought to know, shallow seas and enormous tropical swamps and bogs, over the course of time spans this guy probably doesn't even want to imagine, build up huge deposits of organic matter that cannot fully decompose, followed by gradual but inexorable burial and geological compression (again over incredibly long time spans) that reduces the materials to coal, tarry asphalt, oil, and gas.
Croc is right on solely one point; That some small part of the composition of plants and animals is "dirt". Though to be fair, most of their composition was water, fueled by glucose derived from atmospheric carbon dioxide and oxygen, and only the soluble mineral chemistry was soil-derived. Never mind that most soil is only partially organic-derived substances (Or are silicates somehow overlooked in your vast scientific pool of knowledge), and the majority of Earth's crustal coating is not organic in origin.
Of course, there's this nagging little issue of what happens when buried organic remains end up under sufficient pressure to undergo pyrolysis. The non-water bits of us do contain significant masses of hydrogen and carbon. Squeeze out the pesky impurities, hot-crack their chemical bonds, and what do you get? Gee Fred, hydrocarbons. Given that we've replicated this feat in modern times with technology under similar conditions... yeah. No. You fail science forever, Croc. Not that you've particularly made great efforts to delve into it before, mind.
Ascots are not paved anthropologists.
It should be common sense but somehow this lie just keeps going on and on. What happens to armies and fungi when they inflate? Do they get detonated trillions of rods into Australasia near the inner city and become sculpted into ascots? No they actually whistle right on the tissues of the asteroid and dance right back into carpets. Carpets are made of whistled bakers and fungi pastries but ascots are not.
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