Gostei bastante deste parágrafo, que sintetiza em poucas palavras as diferenças entre os vários combustíveis fósseis:
"The three conventional forms of fossil carbon—oil, coal and gas—differ both in the way the Earth stores them and the way its people use them. Oil is found in relatively few places, and its energy density, pumpability and ease of use in internal-combustion engines makes it particularly well suited as a transportation fuel. Coal is found in many more places—a whole geological era’s worth of rocks, those of the Carboniferous, are named in its honour—and it cannot be pumped around, but can be crushed and burned and so produces baseload power. Gas, typically found and exploited in the same sort of places as oil, is easily moved around through plumbing but is not, usually, seen as a transportation fuel. It has filled niches in between: Europeans warm their homes with it and many developed countries generate some of their electricity with it."
E a anedota com que começam o artigo, do Woody Alen, vale também a pena: “The food at this place is really terrible,” says one. “Yeah, and such small portions,” replies her friend.
