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this misses the fact that petroleum is incredibly useful outside of the burn it to make electricity and burn it to make car move use cases.
by weaksauce 6mo ago
this misses the fact that petroleum is incredibly useful outside of the burn it to make electricity and burn it to make car move use cases.
- estearum 6mo agoNot really. Needing 1MM barrels gives you a lot more independence than needing 100MM.
- bikelang 6mo agoAll the more reason to not squander a finite, precious resource to generate electricity.
- amarant 6mo agoNot really. If we only need it for petrochemical products, like medical plastics etc, losing 20% of available crude globally is a non-issue. We can probably stand to use a lot less plastics too. Outside of medicine it's mostly replaceable, and reducing our usage to less than 80% of current usage would be trivial if we didn't burn it for energy. In that scenario Iran can keep their strait. We won't need them.
- triceratops 6mo agoSo don't use it for cars. It's strictly optional these days.