alt Hacker Newsthis 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.
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amarant • today at 7:49 PM
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 • today at 6:58 PM
Not really. Needing 1MM barrels gives you a lot more independence than needing 100MM.
All the more reason to not squander a finite, precious resource to generate electricity.