Whenever you read stories like this one, always remind yourself, There is no shortage of oil.
This crisis was caused solely by political mismanagement, both deliberate and inadvertent, on an international level. We have more than enough coal, natural gas, and oil to meet our needs into the foreseeable future worldwide. Even without nuclear power, we would be fine, and we can build nuclear power plants whenever we decide to do so.
Energy sources are effectively limitless. So are natural resources. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, because they are not telling the truth.
There is no shortage of oil.
Another thing to remember is that oil is abiotic.
Yes and we have had the tech for almost a century to turn completely renewable resources like trees and almost any other carbon based source directly into oil and can skip the wait time. If they were serious about geo engineering we would be pulling as much carbon out of the ground as possible and making it easily accessible in the atmosphere and converted into sources we can easily get too.
" Yes and we have had the tech for almost a century to turn completely renewable resources like trees and almost any other carbon based source directly into oil and can skip the wait time.
YES! I've been telling people about this for years. I have had this Reuters article (reuters.com) bookmarked for a friggin' decade.
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