Even a layman knows the properties of fuel
and its use in converting energy from one form to another. Generally fuel exists in transient form, but it's meaning is also becoming the transient recently.
Technically fuel is something that energises a process by killing itself. Recently fuel is not just kills itself, but also its own source directly or indirectly.
It's quiet known to people how wars are destroying many countries in this world. A few countries such Iraq and Syria are better examples of those destroying countries. It's also known to everyone that fuel is what fuels these wars. That's the first example for the fact that fuel destroys its own source.
The other notable example is the recent protests in the South part of India, in the state Tamil Nadu, where people are protesting against industries that are planning to extract hydrocarbon fuels from farming lands. It may look in a way that India is moving towards an alternative fuel production, but the reality is India is losing its own fuel of development.
Farming has always been the fuel for India's development and national stability. When fuel extraction comes to existence fuel would actually defuel (the act of draining the fuel to prevent it from causing anymore productive work) India's stability. This may cause interval war and may even lead to the destruction of the nation.
It is quite evident that fuel is no more a substance that would be used for production of energy. Instead it would be an agent of self-destruction and source destruction.
Who knows? Tomorrow Oxford may this new definition for fuel as a symbol of mass destruction caused by the fuel in various countries.
