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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Well, it isn’t debatable. Not in any near term timeframe at any rate. Not unless you and everyone else on Earth wants lower qualities of lives, which they don’t and nobody is serious about.
I recommend researching energy, it’s use, demand and precisely what types of things oil and gas provide. It’s a hell of a long list that’s a hell of a lot short on substitutes that don’t otherwise also destroy the planet- and that’s if they exist at all. Any chatter about a quick transition away from oil, and by quick I mean like the next 30-40 years, is unlikely IMO.
Hell we are still working on phasing out coal let alone oil and gas. In fact I think gas consumption is set to grow not shrink. But sure let’s continue to all pretend we care about the environment and climate change and not do anything about it because it means a massive, enormous change to our lives to the massive, enormous downside.
Anyway I look forward to your response from your almost entirely oil and gas supplied life about how you want it phased out but don’t understand what it is or what it does or how much of it you rely on. Again, I recommend some thorough research on all the products and pieces of your life that rely on it, then let’s start the debate. But there is no debate with idealist nonsense based on hyper groupthink popular commentary about “the transition “. Nobody is ready or really willing to “transition”.
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Sounds like you’re the one who doesn’t understand the industry. Even Shell has come out with a prediction that oil demand is seat to peak in the next five years and start to fall away as other energy sources overtake it.
Will oil disappear in 40 years? No. Will we be much much less reliant on it than we are today as other energy sources take over? Absolutely.
Just because it’s something you can’t personally imagine, doesn’t mean it’s hyper groupthink and idealist nonsense. If it is, I guess you’re one of the very few in the world not in “the group.” How does sand taste?