[DennisR]

What exactly is a fossil fuel? I see references to this frequently, but it should be referred to as petroleum.

[chopperman]

Fossil Fuels includes petroleum, gasses, coal and their byproducts and variations.

[ArrogantBustard]

What exactly is a fossil fuel?

Petroleum, natural gas and coal. The Gaia-worshipers particularly detest coal. I particularly detest the Gaia-worshipers.

[Paladin2]

"What exactly is a fossil fuel?"

That would be any fuel used by Old White Guys.

[lbryce]

I'm not sure if you're being serious or not but here it is. Coal, gas, petroleum are called "fossil" fuels because, according to scientists, they are the remnants of trees, vegetation, other elements that have undergone tremendous physical, chemical change decompressing beneath the Earth since prehistoric times. The effects of eons of time beneath the Earth, million of years, according to scientists, combined with the tremendous pressure, other factors exerted by the Earth transformed forests, vegetation into coal, gas.

You might recall the oil and gas company BP (British Petroleum) the same company that destroyed the coastal waters down South, Gulf of Mexico had once upon a time a dinosaur as their logo.

Scientists believe the billions of gallons of petroleum beneath the Earth essential to our mechanized world, was created the same way as coal, as, except in the case of petroleum, the fossilization process occurring on the unimaginably numerous prehistoric creatures, mostly dinosaurs was transformed into petroleum, aka fossilized dinosaur remnants.

Some scientists aren't sold on the fossil fuel theory, claiming none of it is true. They say these fuels are not at all biological in nature, that they came to be in the process which created the Universe, the Earth.

You Tube:The Myth of Fossil Fuels

[UCANSEE2]

What exactly is a fossil fuel?

A fuel that will be around long after you become a fossil.