fossil
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“Using fossil fuel in this day and age is not a good idea.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026
One reason for this could be that the U.S. economy is far less dependent on fossil fuels than it was in the past, said economist Ed Yardeni of Yardeni Research.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
Ivanhoe is one node in a globe-spanning supply chain in which fossil fuels underpin the technologies pitched as their replacements.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
"The lesson of yet another global energy shock is that the UK needs to get off the fossil fuel rollercoaster and onto clean homegrown power that we control," he says.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Of course dinosaur hunting didn’t end with the deaths of the great nineteenth-century fossil hunters.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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