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so the stuff you generally drive cars with and where plastic comes from is apparently due to an important resource on Earth called oil which is refined into things like gasoline.

Anyway... the USA has five years of oil reserves and therefore they import a lot.

https://www.worldometers.info/oil/us-oil/#oil-reserves

Some countries have more but basically the entire world will run out of oil within 47 years.

https://www.worldometers.info/oil/

How do you feel about this?

Should we buy a bunch of oil because as it gets more scarce obviously the price will go up without a mass conversion to electric vehicles in the next 20-ish years.

Yeah we're pretty fucked.

Oil? Bitch you cookin?

This is why they need to make driving electric cars more convenient. From what Ive heard, its a pain to charge then because there arent as many charging stations as there are gas stations. In fact, Im not even aware of a charge station in my city.

Is it a one syllable word or two?

ull or oy-al

Payzmaykr posted...

This is why they need to make driving electric cars more convenient. From what Ive heard, its a pain to charge then because there arent as many charging stations as there are gas stations. In fact, Im not even aware of a charge station in my city.

how many miles you drive a day? Vast majority of people could charge their cars at home

whats this future mean for plastics?

My hair gets oily if I go without showering for a day.

Its pronounced Earl

josifrees posted...

how many miles you drive a day? Vast majority of people could charge their cars at home

whats this future mean for plastics?

Oh, barely any. I got a car with 100,000 miles on it about seven years ago and Ive only put 10k miles on it. When I lived in Baton Rouge, I lived literally 30-45 minutes away from everything. I had my car for over ten years and only put 70k miles on it.

The Boomers, as well as The Greatest Generation, pissed away this source of energy.

Now they are going to die leaving us with a demonstrably broken health care system, horrible infrastructure, useless schools, broken Cities and suburban sprawl, and crippling national debt.

i heard a conservative say theres an endless supply of oil inside Earth suggesting its like Earths bloood or something crazy and insane like that Lmao

In 2020, we hoarded toilet paper

In 2022, its time to hoard Valvoline

oil.

Mako?

oil's well that end in an oil well

shironinja posted...

How do you feel about this?

aware that all estimates of oil reserves neglect shale deposits, because shale oil quantities have not been measured accurately

we don't actively pursue it because it's more expensive, but when other deposits run out, the consequence will simply be "things get more expensive"

my concern with oil is simply that burning it at the rates we do is ending the holocene epoch and the subsequent droughts and famines will result in much more war in the future