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My friends satire essay for AP English. This is literally one of the funniest thing I have ever read.

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Cars are a fantastic invention. They make our first-world lives even more carefree by

getting us from place to place quickly while eradicating the need for legs altogether. Instead of

walking that two blocks to spend seventeen dollars at KFC, why not drive there? You get there

faster and can start eating sooner; it is a lot easier to shove those Double Down sandwiches down

your throat behind the wheel of your Suburban than while hobbling down the sidewalk. There is

no doubt that the benefits of driving from place to place are exponentially great. However, all

that driving takes an awful lot of fuel, and everyone knows that fuel for cars isn’t the most

plentiful (or cheapest!) of resources.

The gasoline that keeps your vehicle running smoothly is supplied from petroleum, also

known as crude oil that is pumped out of the ground. This crude oil, in turn, is created by the

transformation of long-dead plant and marine animal fossils. These fossils are under immense

pressure and heat for hundreds of thousands of years, and the result is a dark and waxy substance

known as kerogen. These kerogen molecules then eventually break down into petroleum or

natural gas and are pumped into your gas tank. That’s right: you are cruising around town with

no aim or purpose, and your car is running off of a limited supply of dead fish souls. An

expensive limited

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