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Originally Posted by photon
Overall demand could increase while at the same time the dependance on oil could be decreasing. You'd have to adjust for overall demand for energy; i.e. what percentage of total global energy usage does fossil fuels make up? If that's decreasing, then dependence on oil is decreasing. I have no idea of the actual numbers, but that's what decreasing dependence would mean to me.
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Fairly easy to see:
you may have to really squint to make out wind and solar. Clearly overall consumption of fossil fuels is increasing faster than renewables. Renewables are adding to the energy mix, not replacing them.