Saudi Arabia alone exported almost $100 billion in crude petroleum in 2020 [1]. That was significantly less than the previous year. Given these scales I'm not

Saudi Arabia alone exported almost $100 billion in crude petroleum in 2020 [1]. That was significantly less than the previous year. Given these scales I'm not really sure $50 billion is a lot of money for the entire world to spend on an energy R&D project. In fact, that number seems surprisingly low, do you have a source for it? [1]: https://oec.world/en/profile/hs/crude-petroleum https://oec.world/en/profile/hs/crude-petroleum