fossil oil

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“If he were truly ambitious and a forerunner, Emmanuel Macron would also have announced dates for phasing out fossil oil and gas,” Nicolas Nace, the organization’s energy transition campaigner, said.

From Washington Times • Sep. 25, 2023

Yet, as Bell notes, "Long before we built offshore rigs for fossil oil and gas, we mined our seas for whales."

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2021

Before we run out of fossil oil, we will thoroughly tap the sea floor, find and frack wells wherever they may be, and excavate and extract the most recalcitrant of oil shales.

From Slate • Sep. 3, 2012

But all fossil oil is probably of vegetable or animal origin, from masses of vegetables or animals long buried in the earth.

From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph

Some of these liquid oils have again lost their more volatile parts, and become cannel-coal, asphaltum, jet, and amber, according to the purity of the original fossil oil.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus