• salty_chief@lemmy.world
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        3 months 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.

      • Nima@leminal.space
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        3 months 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.