That it's not old critters has been known since the beginning of the oil industry. The fossil name partly stuck, because we have presumed that it is a finite resource, similar to mineral deposits. What hasn't been known, is how it was made, exactly. If it is a slowly renewing resource, that could very much change how civilization comes back, after our current fall is completed.
That it's not old critters has been known since the beginning of the oil industry. The fossil name partly stuck, because we have presumed that it is a finite resource, similar to mineral deposits. What hasn't been known, is how it was made, exactly. If it is a slowly renewing resource, that could very much change how civilization comes back, after our current fall is completed.