01-28-2019, 12:13 PM
"Considering how far out of vogue petroleum is falling I suspect you're not going to have to worry about that very much longer."
Wait until the environmentalists realize how much strip mining is destroying the planet to feed an ever-growing appetite of lithium and cobalt for vehicle batteries, and copper for upgrading the power grids for powering vehicle battery chargers. All to power electric vehicles that are being charged with fossil fuels burned at power plants just to lose energy from resistance. Strip mines are big, ugly, and permanent (millions of years permanent) whereas oil fields are relatively invisible once you take the rigs away.
Electric vehicles are "probably" the future, but not in a form that current exist anywhere. UK houses are wired for 80 amps, and people can't run a car charger and their stove at the same time. Their grid would need to be re-done from the power generators all the way to the end user if electric vehicles were the only choice with current technology.
Petroleum will be in vogue until technology matures, otherwise I'm not sure the Earth can handle it. Hawaii might be one of the first places where petroleum isn't in vogue, but it won't be in my lifetime. But I do have more days behind me than I do ahead of me.
Wait until the environmentalists realize how much strip mining is destroying the planet to feed an ever-growing appetite of lithium and cobalt for vehicle batteries, and copper for upgrading the power grids for powering vehicle battery chargers. All to power electric vehicles that are being charged with fossil fuels burned at power plants just to lose energy from resistance. Strip mines are big, ugly, and permanent (millions of years permanent) whereas oil fields are relatively invisible once you take the rigs away.
Electric vehicles are "probably" the future, but not in a form that current exist anywhere. UK houses are wired for 80 amps, and people can't run a car charger and their stove at the same time. Their grid would need to be re-done from the power generators all the way to the end user if electric vehicles were the only choice with current technology.
Petroleum will be in vogue until technology matures, otherwise I'm not sure the Earth can handle it. Hawaii might be one of the first places where petroleum isn't in vogue, but it won't be in my lifetime. But I do have more days behind me than I do ahead of me.