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0 pointskrapp5y ago0 comments

>As long as someone is willing to pay for it, it will be provided. And even cheaply

This is only true until it isn't. At some point oil will become economically and technologically infeasible and alternatives will win out, because no one wants the million-dollar a barrel oil economy that results when we have to resort to mining Titan for it.

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lstodd5y ago

>At some point oil will become economically and technologically infeasible and alternatives will win out

And it will, but I fail to see how this defeats my statement.

Oil will become obsolete not because its price will rise, but only because the alternatives will finally become cheaper.

Which is not the case as of now.

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