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Why buy coal mines if you could just by oil tankers and let them idle? This would drive up oil prices in many places, reduce demand demand for oil and make rene
by oezi 5y ago
Why buy coal mines if you could just by oil tankers and let them idle? This would drive up oil prices in many places, reduce demand demand for oil and make renewables and energy efficient technologies more competitive.
- roenxi 5y agoFor starters that plan probably wouldn't work. The cost of taking that much much oil out of the market and sitting it idly would bankrupt the parties involved. For seconds if the plan did work, the group responsible would likely be designated as terrorists and get taken out by the US military.
- oezi 5y agoWhy would it bankrupt anybody? Letting it sit idle or scrapping it aren't too expensive when compared to the saved CO2. The US would have certainly done something when they still were highly dependent on foreign oil.
- roenxi 5y agoOil creation & use are both flows, so there needs to be ongoing spending within an order of magnitude of the global oil market. Nobody can afford that sort of money to be spent on a completely unproductive activity, without any form of payoff. Countries would be bankrupting themselves.
- freediver 5y agoTo take the idea a bit further, you make them into floating plantations, delivering fresh fruit/vegetables to any location in the world.
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