Not only are fossils dug out of the ground, which links them to dirt and mud (viz. the expression dirty energy), but they are also artefacts from a very remote past, which connotes the idea that hydrocarbons are utterly outdated and should be extinct like the species whose skeletons we display in museum exhibits.
Author Archives: Patrick Duffley
Patrick Duffley is Professor of English Linguistics at Université Laval, in Canada.