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Ancient sunlight, pressure-cooked into liquid power and modern civilization's favorite addiction.
means A naturally occurring oily liquid of hydrocarbons, refined into fuels, plastics, and a thousand other things.
from From Latin petra (rock) and oleum (oil) — literally rock oil, named for the stuff seeping from stone.
Dead planktonMostly ancient marine algae, not dinosaurs.
Slow cookTook millions of years and immense heat to form.
Not just fuelBecomes plastics, asphalt, medicines, even cosmetics.
First wellDrilled in Pennsylvania, 1859, by Edwin Drake.