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    What are fossil fuels? Fossil fuels are a type of gas that dominate the energy sources. Fossil fuels are one of the most used and they are starting to run out. They are mostly used due their low prices. They estimate that by the end of the 21st century fossil fuel nuclear What are fossil fuels? Fossil fuels are a type of gas that dominate the energy sources. Fossil fuels are one of the most used and they are starting to run out. They are mostly used due their low prices. They estimate that by the

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    Introduction Fossil Fuels are the most important energy sources in our world today. The overwhelming majority of the huge amount of energy used in the world comes from the burning of three major fossil fuels: coal, petroleum, and natural gas. Fossil fuels are a non-renewable source of energy, and there is no other . They are formed over a very long period of time; the fossil fuels on earth today were formed from plants and animals that lived up to 300 million years ago. These fossil fuels are found

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    Fossil Fuels Essay

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    with Fossil Fuels Have you ever thought about where your electricity comes from? What the petroleum your car runs on is made of? What produces all the energy you see? Coal, oil, and natural gas make up the list of major fossil fuels. Almost all energy produced in the United States comes from burning these highly important fuels. That energy powers almost all of our electricity and all of our transportation. We as the people of this very planet are currently in a crisis because fossil fuels are

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    Fossil Fuels In The US

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    Fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and natural gas provide the U.S. with over 80 percent of its energy supply (McNerney & Cheek, 2012). Fossil fuels, formed from organic materials over the course of many centuries, have fueled the global and U.S. economic development for the past two centuries. Nonetheless, fossil fuels are finite resources that cause irreversible harm to the environment. Scientists consider them nonrenewable forms of energy since they take hundreds of years to form. According to Rand

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    What Are Fossil Fuels?

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    about it, we just do it. Not many people stop and think about how the fuel we are putting into our cars got to the gas station in the first place. The bad news for us is that oil, along with a few other resources, are fossil fuels. Almost everyone’s daily life uses fossil fuels in one way or another. The big question that not many people ask or know the answer to is; what are fossil fuels? To find out what fossil fuels are, we must first know how they were formed. They were at first actual

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    Ever since the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, fossil fuels have seen a huge rise in popularity. Used to power the economy and numerous factories, fossil fuels started the leap in technology that gives us the power we take for granted today. Since the beginning of the oil industry in the 19th century, petroleum has risen to global everyday usage. Initially kerosene, a product derived from petroleum, was used for lighting and heating, but with the appearance of oil drilling technology petroleum

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    Fossil fuels are a fuel that was formed over millions of years from organic material from forms of life. There are different types of fossil fuels such as gas, oil, nuclear and the one mostly produced in Australia, coal. Australian government supplies energy from fossil fuels to the entire country as around 86% of electricity is generated from these fuels, with 73% from coal and 13% from natural gas with renewable energy sources making up 14% of Australia’s electricity (origin,2015). Fossil fuels

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    Fossil Fuels In America

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    Fossil fuels are a major source of energy in America and throughout the world. The three major fossil fuels are oil, natural gas, and coal. While these three fossil fuels account for most of the energy used in most countries and they are able to provide energy for places around the world at a cheap price, they also account for things like pollution and the climate changes. Each of the fossil fuels has a long process to be prepared for consumer use that causes many environmental problems. The major

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    Marius Yapo Ms. Wenzell ERWC, 2nd Period 29 January 2016 Fossil Fuels Would you rather die of oil wars, climate change, nuclear holocaust, or none of the above? The obvious answer would be none of the above. We live in a world today where we have become dangerously addicted to the already rare and limited fossil fuels because it is cheap. It is dangerous because the world will eventually run out and fight over these resources. It is also dangerous because these resources are very polluting and it

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    demand for fossil fuels is increasing every day. In 2014, the United States alone consumed over 19 million barrels of oil a day. Not only is running out of these vital fuels a concern, but our ferocious appetite for fossil fuels is heating our planet at an alarming rate. While wind and solar power have been doing their part to cut back on the use of fossil fuels, it may be biology that allows us to finally cut the cord to fossil fuels. Recent studies into using biology as a renewable fuel have shown

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