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This. To me it's like being a paper form printing company when computers were just becoming mainstream. Your days are numbered, deal with it and survive or don't and you wont.



We will be using petroleum products long after everyone on this forum is dead. Might still be 60-70% of current demand as well, maybe higher.


I think it will change faster than that. The acceleration to electric vehicles has gone far gayer than I ever imagined possible thanks largely to Tesla. Solar and wind have also taken off in a way I would have never expected a decade ago.


You're probably right, but i hope you're not.


A lot of innocent people are going to feel a lot of pain when that happens (along with completely guilty people of course) - I don't think it's avoidable myself but I can definitely sympathize with the people fighting to try and cushion the transition.




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