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https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/ https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc... Oil is made over millions of ye
by linotype 2y ago
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/ https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...
Oil is made over millions of years and we’re on track to deplete it in under 200 years. We’ll never completely deplete it because the oil that’s left will be uneconomical to extract, but that’s functionally the same thing.
- baggy_trough 2y agoThey said the same “50 years to go” thing in the 70s. Yes, of course the naturally occurring supply is finite. But we don’t know where the limit is.
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