Fossil Fuel from Dino's? reader question

Hey Dr. Jackson I have a question. I was daydreaming in my middle ages class today and started thinking if dinosaurs were around during biblical times where did all of the oil come from? are they from dinos or caused by something else? Nathan at OSU-Stillwater OK

Like the standard story ... yeah all fossil fuels come from dead organic matter that got buried and chemically reacted over centuries (not millions of years) and got buried all in the same year (not over millions of years) during Noah's Flood. Coalification and petroleum formation ... do not ... have to take millions ... they can happen in just ... hundreds of years ... we have the chemistry knowledge to know that it is possible. I hope this helps. God bless, DrJ