Yes. Ingredients for cooking oil tend to come from plants (like olives for olive oil) and plants are considered Natural Resources because they come from the earth.
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Oil
Oil has a reserve of chemical energy. If we burn it, that gets converted to heat energy.
The sun
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Oil
no
The source of energy for plants is sunlight.
In most food webs the Sun is the ultimate source of energy. Some food webs start with chemotrophs and in those cases the source of the energy are chemicals often from underwater volcanoes.
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chemical to machanical energy
Oil takes millions of years to form. Eventually we will run out of oil and need a new source.