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Waiting around for more things to die so we can keep harvesting oil seems a little dreary, don't you think?

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You may have heard of fossil

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fuels before But what exactly do those words mean You

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know that fossils a k a the preserved remains of [Fossils appear]

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living things that died a long long time ago Like

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the dinosaur skeleton museum Also now that fuel it's just

00:26

that our parents pumped into our car's gas tank Some [Fuel pump attached to car]

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are fossil fuels Just a bunch of really old bones

00:31

you used to gas up the car It seems like

00:33

it be pretty tough to shove all those bones into [Bone shoved into gas tank]

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a tiny hole of a gas tank But believe it

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or not that's actually kind of close to the truth

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Except riel Fossil fuels don't get you in trouble with

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any museum directors They generally prefer that dinosaur leg stay [Boy running with Dinosaur bone]

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on this play rather than going in people's cars Fossil

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fuels begin as living things Three hundred million years ago

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there were all sorts of different plants and animals covering

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the planet Fortunately from time to time ah whole bunch [Dinosaurs on Earth]

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of these plants and animals would die Not even the

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greatest dinosaur doctors of the time could keep everyone living

01:02

forever They were just dinosaurs not miracle workers When some

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of these plants and animals died Their bodies ended up

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being trapped really far underground deep below the surface of [Dinosaurs bones underground]

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the earth those bodies decomposed and turned into different kinds

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of fossil fuels coal it's natural gas and oil Thes

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fossil fuels can then be dug up and used to

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power all sources stuff from power plants to cars So

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even though most dinosaurs could never drive a car they [Rex driving a car]

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can definitely helps power What's stubby arms don't matter when

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your fossil fuel One important thing to know about fossil

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fuels is that they're non renewable Resource is of energy

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Unlike solar power and wind power which collect energy over [Dino discussing fossil fuels]

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and over again a non renewable sources of energy can

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only be used once if you burn a bunch of

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coal it's gone as soon as it's done burning not [Bus appears on farm]

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coming back any time soon unless you happen to have

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an extra three hundred million years to wait for some

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new fossil fuels to form But we really hope you

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