Fossil fuels are
(a) renewable but exhaustible.
(b) renewable and inexhaustible.
(c) non-renewable but can be recycled.
(d) non-renewable and cannot be recycled.

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(d) non-renewable and cannot be recycled
Fossil fuels are non-renewable and cannot be recycled because they are formed extremely slowly (in millions of years) from dead remains of living organisms and their rate of consumption is more than their rate of replenishment.

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