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[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Catfish

No.
Coal consists of dead plants, and it always is a terrestial product.
Oil consists of marine plankton and less nekton, and almost no bigger animals. Plankton is not plants, biologically.
Both need the absence of air/oxygen for building up. And some million years.

I knew I should have google-verified it before I wrote it.

NeonSamurai makes a good point though, and it's for his reasons that I wish I could go veggie, but I like my meat too much.