There's no such thing as fossil fuels. The oil that comes out of the ground is not made from fossils or plants. Not predominantly, it is made from liquidated rocks and natural gas.
It's a term, we know they don't come from fossils.
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.
Rocks aren't even composed of the same elements that make up crude oil.
Lol! That's not true, oxides in the rocks become radicals when they're subjected to hydrogen gas and high pressures, they go on to form hydrocarbons via natural hydrocracking. Trace minerals in rocks and sediment combine to give paraffinic and napthinic content, as well as aromatics in raw petroleum. You ever wonder why we have oil exploration near the tectonic plates?
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