what are the advantages of fossil fuel?

Fossil fuel includes petroleum, coal and natural gas. Some of the advantages of fossil fuels are:

They are easily available.

They are easily combustible and a little amount of fossil fuels can produce large amount of energy.

They are highly efficient producers of energy and have very high calorific value.

They are composed of molecules of carbon and hydrogen and this makes them very stable.

They can be easily stored and transported from one place to another.

They are very abundantly available.

They are cost effective.

They are easily extracted and processed to extract large amount of energy at single location.

The by-products obtained during their or after their refining are also very useful.