Fuelled by Dinosaurs

Typically dinosaurs might be noticed in probably the most uncommon locations. For instance, an eagle-eyed Every thing Dinosaur crew member noticed a fuelled by dinosaurs sticker on a automobile parked subsequent to our “dino van” at our warehouse the opposite day.

A Mistaken Assumption

The concept petrol and different oil derived fuels are made up of the constituents of lifeless dinosaurs is a standard assumption. Sadly, while it’d please a petroleum head to suppose that their super-charged, sports activities automobile is powered by lengthy extinct animals like Triceratops and T. rex, this isn’t true. Fossil fuels corresponding to petrol and pure gasoline are derived from the stays of (principally) plant matter corresponding to plankton (algae) laid down in a marine atmosphere.

Most individuals perceive that coal is derived from plant materials, within the case of the UK, our plentiful and ubiquitous provides of coal that fuelled the economic revolution and trade till very just lately largely consists of the stays of Carboniferous swamps and forests.

Fuelled by Dinosaurs

We’re sorry automobile followers, for all you petrol heads on the market, your car shouldn’t be powered by dinosaurs however by the traditional stays of among the easiest, but most necessary organisms on Earth – marine plankton.

Nonetheless, it’s a thought. Maybe some intelligent automobile maker or one other a part of the oil or automotive trade will latch onto this misnomer and use it of their promoting. In spite of everything, not so way back, a well known model of petrol marketed its gas by stating put “a tiger in your tank”!