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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Coal is much rarer than oil? I have to look that up, I always thought there is far more coal.

Nope, there is about 3x more coal than oil.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

IIRC, all that coal comes from plant material from before there were microbes that can break down cellulose. Meaning that while it's possible to regenerate oil over millions of years, coal cannot.

So yes, there may be more of it now, but when we burn it, it's gone forever.