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Is Norway responsible for the emissions? It's the buyers who decide to burn the oil rather than use it to produce other stuff.
by praptak 7y ago
Is Norway responsible for the emissions? It's the buyers who decide to burn the oil rather than use it to produce other stuff.
- vintermann 7y agoIf the buyer doesn't want it, Norway sets down the price until someone does. We make sure every barrel pumped is burned eventually. In the end, we have to leave carbon in the ground. Even with increasingly dubious prospects for profitability, and increasing environmental risks (from oil extradition in the far north), Norwegian governments have not been willing to leave any oil in the ground.
- richardwhiuk 7y agoWhy is turning it into plastics a problem? You don't have to burn oil....
- alkonaut 7y agoMost of the plastic I buy is burned (as trash) probably within a year from me buying it. Sweden burns its trash, we don't stuff it in landfills, and even though I recycle a lot of plastic, it's far from all of it. It's mostly packaging plastic that's recycled, not e.g. toys.
- richardwhiuk 7y agoIn theory, the world should just bury it. After all, it came from the ground.
- AdrianB1 7y agoYou can use the same argument to sell guns to 8 year old. Do you?
- praptak 7y agoPerhaps if you are willing to misinterpret my argument as absolving anyone from any responsibility for the end effect of helping somebody.
- alkonaut 7y agoTo be fair, if they left their oil in the ground, then global oil prices would be higher, and alternatives (relatively) cheaper. Anyone who digs up oil and gas ensure it's cheaper to burn it.
- bagacrap 7y agoLike what, press billions of vinyl records?