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Crude oil is a non-renewable resource. Realistically speaking, humans will never see nature "produce" more crude oil. All that is stored underground and in national reserves is all that we have. Once it is pumped up to the earth's surface, refined, stored, and then used, it is gone. Through use (burning) it changes into vapors through chemical reactions involving heat. So, the oil from underground gets pumped to the surface, burned and thus, suspended in the atmosphere as Carbon Dioxide and as solid Carbon (soot). For comparison purposes, an example of a renewable resource is timber from trees. They can be grown and harvested for widespread human use in as little as 10-20 years (depending on the species of tree).

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