why is petroleum called a fossil fuel
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An oil refinery in Saudi Arabia. ... Over millions of years, heat and pressure from Earth's crust decomposed these organisms into one of the three main kinds of fuel: oil (also called petroleum), natural gas, or coal. These fuels are called fossil fuels, since they are formed from the remains of dead animals and plants
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because over millions of years under high pressure and high temperature, the remains of these organisms transformed into what we know today as fossil fuels. coal , natural gas , and petroleum are all fossil fuels that formed under similar conditions .
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