❌ Facebook posts claim oil 'regenerates faster than it could ever be depleted' The claim is untrue -- experts told AFP petroleum and other fossil fuels take millions of years to form
, a professor at Perth-based Curtin University's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences said the rate humans were currently extracting oil was much faster than the formation process.
"Oil and gas are a limited resource and once used will not be replaced for another few hundred millions of years," Shallcross told AFP via email.
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