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Originally posted by iamnormal
It is converted into carbon in the air. The plants take the carbon from the air and makes solid form of it. The plants die and in a couple hundred of millions years we will have oil again.
One miner problem is we take out more carbon from the ground and put it in the air than the plants can put back into the ground.
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I was always under the impression that Oil comes from a type of prehistoric animal that used photosynthesis? So a 1/2 plant 1/2 animal if you will
The true plants and trees formed coal? Maybe I'm wrong and secondary teaching let me seriously down!