| ▲ | weaksauce 2 hours 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. | ||
| ▲ | bikelang 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
All the more reason to not squander a finite, precious resource to generate electricity. | ||
| ▲ | amarant an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Not 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. | ||
| ▲ | estearum 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Not really. Needing 1MM barrels gives you a lot more independence than needing 100MM. | ||