Conserving coal and petroleum:
Why does the price of petrol go up all the time? In simple terms, the price of anything depends on how much of it is available and how essential it is. Both coal and petroleum are exhaustible resources,but we need them, both as fuel and as starting materials for synthesising new compounds. Since supplies are limited they are becoming more expensive as the demand for them increases. We have to conserve these resources as much as possible, and also look for alternatives for these resources
Let us look at the issue of conservation.We can reduce the consumption of both coal and petroleum by either opting for a different model of development which does not depend on these resources or reduce the wastage of these resources. Since the first option is right now impracticable, second option of reducing wastage is to be practiced. The governments of many countries are working on this problem of finding alternative technologies to reduce the use of fossil fuels