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kibwentoday at 12:50 PM2 repliesview on HN

There won't be a petro-anything. In 30 years the oil industry will no longer be the resource upon which the whole world turns, and will instead be just another industrial input.


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thehumanmeattoday at 1:09 PM

There was never a petro-anything. It's always been and is the Eurodollar global reserve currency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodollar

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FrustratedMonkytoday at 1:37 PM

One can only hope.

This current crises has been a boon for alternative energy sources.

Really has driven home the point to even the most 'head-in-sand-right-winger' that Solar is a National Defense issue, not a woke agenda.