I agree with you, but I didn't write the article or the title. The hydrocarbons on Earth we use as fuel came from geological and geochemical processes not dinosaurs or even plants. We have detected hydrocarbons on other moons and exoplanets and those are not likely produced by any life form so that makes it pretty obvious that 'fossil fuels' are a bad moniker and only good for marketing wank.
It's a very interesting substance, petroleum, rather hydrocarbons themselves. The fat of the land is not an unwise moniker. Hydrocarbons/Fat/Oil has twice as much energy as carbohydrates or protein, only alcohols come close to hydrocarbons, but hydrocarbons have other wonderful properties, like the ability to polymerize, whereas alcohols/naptha are solvents. Everything we use is built with polymerized hydrocarbons. Even your body.
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