Reply #12: 60 years or more ago, many people did believe, at least in passing, [View All]

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that oil came from dinos and other living critters. Not much was said in school back then about what oil really was...so the myth--if that is what it is--lived on. Sorta made sense.

Coal though was obviously from plant life. The shape of prehistoric plants was imprinted on coal. Many school science classes had such a lump of coal to demonstrate.

For those who are fairly recent arrivals, so much was still unknown in the 30s and 40s. With a depression and a major war, no one bothered to think about facts and fiction of the oil bidness.