The line graph below illustrates the manufacturing number of three distinct fossil fuels in the UK, in a 19 years period, from 1982 to 2000.
Overall, Petroleum started and ended as the most produced energy while Natural gas was the lowest in production surpassing Coal to end up being the second manufactured fuel.
First and foremost, Natural gas production was only around 40 units at the beginning of the period, levelled off for 10 years and overtook Coal briefly before being passed again before exceeding Coal in 1991 and rose gradually until reached 100 units by the end of 2000.
On the other hand, Coal’s figure was double Natural gas’s number in 1981. Despite having a good start, the production of Coal still dropped throughout the period. In sharp contrast to Coal, Petroleum was the favourite fossil resource at that time with approximately 90 units, this trend of production helped Petroleum’s number displayed exponential growth and reached an all time high at 140 units before performing a slightly decreased and significantly surged afterwards to end up at 140 units by the end of the period
