• AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social
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    11 hours ago

    Keep going small line! I need to see that go past the $150 barrier! We need oil to be so expensive that the green transition is forced upon everyone; because apparently, it’s the only way.

    It comes with the bonus of making every fascist asshole in the world defending the oil industry to actually suffer for their choices.

    Yup, this is one line that I’ll always enjoy when it goes up.

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      6 hours ago

      We need oil to be so expensive that the green transition is forced upon everyone

      Oil isn’t used only for transportation, you know. Fertilizers. Plastics. Paints. Medicine. All kinds of stuff depends on it too. The oil insdustry is obscenely rich and can weather this storm just fine, “we the people” will be the ones suffering with high inflation

      • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social
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        21 minutes ago

        Which is the more reason to stop using it as fuel. The moment you drop oil as a fuel, oil demand will go down by a lot and, with that, prices, making all the products from oil that are not fuel cheaper.

        So yeah, keep going up, little line. We need oil at ridiculous high prices to force the green transition.

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        2 hours ago

        Which is why it’s important to transition to more of a focus making those things with it instead of just burning it as fuel.

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        5 hours ago

        Sure, but that’s not gonna change either. Is anything, more people switching to EV or less fuel intensive transportation (including the trucking industry), then oil drops in price and those other uses also drop in price.

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        4 hours ago

        Yeah I’d like that to be drastically restructured as well. Get off the petrochemical teat completely.

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      8 hours ago

      Who would have thought that trump and putin would be the unwilling force that makes the world go green.

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        7 hours ago

        I mean hes put a lot of effort into destroying any progress we have had with non oil energy…