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You could just buy oil and not burn it. Far simpler than CCS.

• esotericn 7y ago
  Eh? That assumes oil production is static. We have effectively infinite resources of fossil fuels still yet to be extracted. That's like saying you can reduce car miles driven by buying a car and not driving it. Another one will just be made.
  • davidw 7y ago
    And you've increased the demand, ever so slightly.
    • esotericn 7y ago
      Yep.
  • doctorpangloss 7y ago
    > Another one will just be made Can we legislate a cap on the production of anything?
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• ajross 7y ago
  That does nothing to reduce consumption. Oil isn't zero sum. If you make the market less efficient prices will rise a bit, but production numbers will still match demand. Fracking taught us this. If you want a simple solution, buy a farm and bury the output. Simpler than storing a bunch of oil, even. But not very effective relative to land use.
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  • esotericn 7y ago
    What's with this obsession with burying it? You can plant trees and build things with them above ground. The house I'm sitting in right now is a literal carbon storage unit. Just don't burn it.