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fos·sil fu·els

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U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Fossil Fuels

    Any combustible hydrocarbon deposit formed from the remains of prehistoric organisms. Examples are petroleum, coal, and natural gas.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fossil fuels in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fossil fuels in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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  1. Carvalho Resende:

    We have seen some wildfires in some sites that have emitted more than 30 million megatons of CO2 -- that's more or less what Bolivia emits in from fossil fuels in one single year, one single event can actually be the emissions of a whole country.

  2. Michael Mann:

    We've undergone transitions like this before, we got off whale oil because something better came along. That was fossil fuels.

  3. Andrew Logan of Ceres:

    The Peabody settlement ... should be seen as a shot across the bow to any company that faces regulatory risk in its core business, whether you produce junk food, high-priced pharmaceuticals or fossil fuels.

  4. Lauri Myllyvirta:

    So far, the government seems to be walking a line of maintaining friendly relationships with Russia without encouraging or directing Chinese firms to increase business with the country, and discouraging anything that might run afoul of the sanctions imposed on China, this line does mean that China's imports from Russia are likely to grow simply on market basis, as other buyers move to embargo Russian fossil fuels.

  5. Scott Perry:

    And when you do that, somebody like Vladimir Putin, who's got an economy that is 40-50%, driven by fossil fuels, it raises the amount of money he's making, so it makes it affordable for somebody — some autocrat — to do what he's doing. So that's number one, the Biden energy policies have facilitated what's happening in Ukraine right now.


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  • Cece Gardner
    Cece Gardner
    ok im not that smart but its not helpul nor i understand it
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