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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 7 points 4 months ago

before any bacteria or enzymes could break down trees (which eventually compacted and became all the coal in the mountains that formed alongside them).

Building off of this, the difference between coal and oil is that coal comes from carbon that was buried before the bacteria existed to break it down, and oil after. There will eventually be more oil, but there will never be more coal