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==Background==

==Background==

Fossil Fuels are great. You wouldn't have a [[cold beer]] or a [[hot shower]] without them. Some people call them fossies. The best fossie is coal, which is not only [[combustible]] but [[delicious]]. A lot of coal comes from [[West Virginia]], [[Wyoming]] and [[Pennsylvania]]. It is burned in big sweet-looking things called [[power plants]].

Fossil Fuels are predominately [[hydrocarbon]] material formed from plant material over geological time under heat and pressure.   Examples include [[coal]] and [[oil]] and their derived products of [[petroleum]] or [[gasoline]].   A lot of coal comes from [[West Virginia]], [[Wyoming]] and [[Pennsylvania]].

 

Another one is oil.

==Downsides==

==Downsides==

Fossies have been criticized, which is really their only downside. Some people say that the fossies' critics are [[snow owl]]-loving [[retards]] who have never been to the south.

Fossil fuels have been criticized as producing a lot of pollution, including sulfur dioxide (from small amounts of organic sulfur compounds) which produces [[acid rain]] and [[carbon dioxide]].

==Finite Resource?==

==Finite Resource?==

No. Especially not now that they can cook it up in [[big steamy vats]].

Because of the long time period required for fossil fuels to be produced in nature, fossil fuels are a finite resource. (See [[Hubbert's peak]].)

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