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I don't understand this utopianist view. Yes, I would like to see oil companies go away but we can't switch off our oil dependency like a light. Whether we like
by ng12 7y ago
I don't understand this utopianist view. Yes, I would like to see oil companies go away but we can't switch off our oil dependency like a light. Whether we like it or not, literally the entire world runs on oil in some capacity and we don't have the ability to wean ourselves off it in the immediate term.
So we should ensure that oil companies have the best technology available to maximize efficiency and minimize the chances of catastrophic environmental disasters (which are almost always the direct result of a technological deficiency) while simultaneously working on the technology and policy that will allow us to minimize our oil dependence in the long term.
- fooblitzky 7y agoThe AWS Oil & Gas offering is explicitly about helping "energy companies" find and extract more oil, faster. From their page: "Accelerate and optimize exploration, drilling, and production". That's not just keeping the lights on, that's actually accelerating the rate of oil extraction at exactly the time when we need to be ramping down.
- empath75 7y agoI think an argument could be made that they’re going to dig for that oil anyway and they might as well do it efficiently.
- lazyasciiart 7y agoNot strongly. The less efficient they are at extracting it, the more attractive renewable sources of energy become, and the more effort will go into producing them.