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Oil is more profitable for other stuff like vehicles and plastics, it'd be a financial waste to burn it for electricity.

• chiefalchemist 7y ago
  Oh. Right. Oops. I did mean to say oil/natural gas.
  • cma 7y ago
    Natural gas is cheaply transportable for heating which is probably a more efficient use of it than in electricity production (I think for electricity it is mainly used in peaker plants that need to start up quickly)
    • adventured 7y ago
      Natural gas is 35.1% of the US energy mix now. That's not peaker plants. It's extremely effective for normal utility scale electricity production.
      • cma 7y ago
        Ah ok, looks like it has grown a lot the last 10 years.