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All petroleum and fossil fuel based products are basically related to the sun. Petroleum or crude oil is made up of fossilised oceanic algae/microorganisms trapped under the surface of the earth. Coal is the same, except in stead of being fossilised microorganisms, it is a form of fossilised wood. In both cases all of the energy stored in these products are derived directly from the sun.

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