by Plantagenet » Sat 18 Mar 2023, 01:02:52
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')I think it's a HELL of a lot smarter to use our remaining oil for things like plastics and petrochemicals generally, vs. stupidly burning it and causing pollution, cancer, and of course AGW anyway.
I agree with you 100%....and so do the current governments in the USA and just about all of the EU.
Nonetheless out there in the real world the data shows that global oil consumption continues to grow each year. So why is more and more oil being used literally decades after the UN started a climate treaty process to reduce the use of oil and other fossil fuels?
The reason that global oil consumption continues to go up is that China, India, and other developing countries continue to increase their use of oil and other fossil fuels......and it's unlikely that this will change in the near future. China made a separate agreements with Obama before the Paris Accords that guaranteed there would be no limits on their use of fossil fuels for the next 30 years. India then demanded the same deal. And now other developing countries are also demanding the same deal....these developing countries are planning to continue to increase their consumption of oil and other fossil fuels.
cop27-fossil-fuels-energy-developing-countries-coal-oil-gas-africa-asiaGiven the fact that China, India, and other developing countries plan on using more and more oil and fossil fuels, chances are global consumption of oil and fossil fuels will continue to grow, unless we reach some kind of geologic peak in the supply of these fossil fuels.
Perhaps you and Adam are right, and global oil production will continue to grow in areas outside the US in coming decades so that China and India can continue to increase how much oil they use. Time will tell......

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