Question

We say fossil fuels will last only for a few hundred years. Comment.

Answer 1

Fossil fuel:

• “Fossil fuels were formed from the dead remains of living organisms millions of years ago.”
• Fossil fuels are exhaustible resources.
• Examples of fossil fuels are coal, petroleum, and natural gas.

Formation of fossil fuels:

• The formation of fossil fuels needs a long time.
• It takes place under specific conditions.
• Therefore, their limited stock will last only for a few hundred years.
• It takes a million years for the dead organisms to get transformed into these fuels such as coal or petroleum. Thus the known reserves of these will last only a few hundred years.