Spyke
lemmy.ca

Oil is made from trees that died before bacteria evolved the ability to digest lignin, not dinosaurs.

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bookwyr.me

Technically those trees generally became coal, while oil is generally from marine life.

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“For some strange reason, the idea that oil comes from dinosaurs has stuck with many people," geologist Reidar Müller from the University of Oslo explained to Science Norway. "But oil comes from trillions of tiny algae and plankton."

Thanks Reidar “Meme-ruinin’” Müller (prob subpar source)

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