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Oil is just big long gooey hydrocarbons that we can make by other means, if we have energy. I'm not too worried about it. If you're desperate you can always sq

• simoncion 11y ago
  > If you're desperate you can always squeeze a peanut or scrape a duck. That sounds terribly expensive. A 1,000% increase in the cost of plastics and lubricants won't be fun for anyone. > ...we can make by other means, if we have energy. Hopefully we gather together the political will and launch the anti-misinformation campaigns required to get some form of very-high-capacity non-fossil-fuel-based electricity generation system long before we need to seriously consider "scraping ducks" to get the hydrocarbons we require.