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Re:Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil w... by Two4 on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @04:03PM (#40662430)
He's not saying Standard Oil invented the term fossil, he's saying they invented/popularised the term "fossil fuel"
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Re:Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil w... by lupusreal on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @04:36PM (#40662801)
Google ngrams reveals his claim to be flagrant horse shit. The term wasn't popular until several decades after standard oil ceased to exist.
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Re:Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil w... by selimthegrim on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @09:27PM (#40664995)
That may be true, but Google ngrams is hardly holy writ in the matter.
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Re:Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil w... by dredmorbius on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @09:50PM (#40665138)
That may be true, but EricE is parroting long-since-debunked fake Facebook memes:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40664837>

Enough bullshit flinging already, eh?

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Re:Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil w... by dredmorbius on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @08:49PM (#40664803)
Oddly enough, the term only really took off in the 1970s:

<https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fossil%20fuel&...>

Zooming in on the 19th century, the term was already seeing use in the 1770s/80s, and was rising in usage well before 1860, by which time it had reached a peak.

<https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fossil+fuel&ye...>

The Standard Oil Company was founded in 1882. Its predecessor Standard Oil Company of Ohio was founded in 1870.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil>

I call bullshit on EricE's unfounded claims.

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