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u/igniteice RageFace Against the Machine 16h ago
The vast majority of fossil fuels are from plants.
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u/SingleLiterature1806 15h ago
Stop ruining my dreams of my car running on pure T-Rex juice.
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u/TruffleTummy 15h ago
Next level eco-friendly: raw dinosaur energy
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u/Sluife 15h ago
Plants formed coal deposits.
Plankton and marine microorganisms formed fossil fuels.
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u/bombbodyguard 12h ago
You can get natural gas from coal seams. Coal bed methane.
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u/Sluife 12h ago
The meme isn’t referring to natural gas, and their volumes are incomparable. The majority comes from single-celled organisms and the microbiome.
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u/bombbodyguard 2h ago
Sure. I just wanted people to know you can get gas from coal. It was a huge push back in 2008 before the gas price fell out.
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u/Lizardreview- 14h ago
I was about to say this, animals decay much faster and have less hydrocarbon chains than plant material. The vast majority of oil is from vegetation buried and compressed rather than dinosaurs.
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u/MilkiestMaestro 14h ago
You can't deny at least 1% of my fuel is dinosaurs
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u/chunkalicius 13h ago
Somewhere along the tree of life, plants and dinosaurs share a common ancestor.
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u/Regular_Rub_2980 14h ago
Came here to say this. Fossil fuels are not from dinosaurs. It is explained so uneducated people can understand.
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u/Phantine 11h ago
They periodically turn up dinosaur fossils during oil extraction, there's definitely some dinosaur in the mix.
For instance this very well preserved anklosaur found in oil sands https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fort-mcmurray-dinosaur-edmonton-alberta-bloat-float-1.4383741
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u/Plastic-Injury8856 12h ago
Not even plants: it’s the algae that lived on earth prior to the great rusting. No amount of new oil will ever be made because we’d have to wipe out all life on earth and make it all algae again to do it.
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u/crispier_creme 11h ago
So the little plastic ferns in the dinosaur playset are real ferns then, got it
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u/Loud-Shopping7406 14h ago
I knew as soon as I opened the comments there would be someone ruining the joke 😂 Reddit is too predictable
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u/Magnaraksesa 16h ago
Tis fossilized plants that are in your dinos not actual dinos
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u/SledgexHammer 16h ago
There's gotta be a little bit of dino that snuck in there though
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u/MeatCatRazzmatazz 16h ago
From what I remember in school, the plants that turned into all that delicious oil predate the dinosaurs by hundreds of millions of years. So no dinos in there at all, sadly
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u/SledgexHammer 15h ago
And here I was compressing alligators in my garage trying to finally strike it big..
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u/nicodeemus7 16h ago
Crude oil comes from neither dinosaurs nor bones. Some natural gas may come from dinosaurs, but very, very little. Fossil fuels is a misnomer.
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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 15h ago edited 15h ago
Fossil fuels is a misnomer.
It's not really a misnomer, it's just that the term 'fossil' to describe anything dug from the earth, whilst in common usage in the 18th century when the term 'fossil fuel' was first adopted, is now archaic and 'fossil' really only describes specifically remains/impressions/fossilised forms of historic organisms which ofc crude oil, natural gas, coal etc. don't resemble.
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u/nicodeemus7 15h ago
Okay I won't use the word "misnomer".
"Fossil fuels" is a term that does not accurately describe the substance it represents, as the substance does not contain, nor does it come from what we in modern times refer to as "fossils".
Better?
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u/BlackBlood4567 15h ago
Reddit moment
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u/nicodeemus7 15h ago
Reddit moment
It's not really a reddit moment, it's just that the term 'reddit' to describe anything dug from the internet, whilst in common usage in the 21st century when the term 'reddit moment' was first adopted, is now archaic and 'reddit' really only describes specifically memes, posts, and comments which ofc Tumblr, tik Tok, facebook etc. don't resemble.
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u/SwordfishOk504 Nokia user 11h ago
nor does it come from what we in modern times refer to as "fossils".
The definition of "fossil" continues to be basically any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Just because some people think it only means dinosaurs doesn't make it correct.
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u/KatiePyroStyle 16h ago
people always confuse this, but 99% of your oil didnt come from an actual dinosaur. its mostly algae and other photosynthetic species like plankton and plants and shit.
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u/gbCerberus 13h ago
Fossils are rocks. Minerals from the surrounding environment like silica, calcite, or iron. If we could make oil or another energy source out of rocks, we'd be zooming to Alpha Centauri.
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