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Just because you can drive 2’ and casually get 100 liters of gasoline does not make fossil fuel infinite. People forget that oil is not like air.

We waste a ton of resources for drilling, transporting and refining, creating in the process huge externalities, to ensure reliable production and supply. And it will only get worse as we are running out of easy to tap sources.

Looking for cheap and viable alternatives to fossils is not a conspiracy or a game. It’s an absolute necessity.



The issue with corn ethanol is that while it could* be done without fossil fuels, it isn’t actually.

Which is why it is such a scam, actually, because in theory it could be done that way, but it’s cheaper to inject fossil fuels at every stage, and hence isn’t actually green. It was also done before electric cars were a thing, and now the whole thing is a pretty pointless give away to the ag industrial complex.


> Just because you can drive 2’ and casually get 100 liters of gasoline does not make fossil fuel infinite.

The finiteness of fossil fuels is not an issue we need to worry about right now.

> it will only get worse as we are running out of easy to tap sources.

As it gets worse, we'll just move on to other sources. No problems at all. At least none that would be easier to prevent than to solve.

> Looking for cheap and viable alternatives to fossils is not a conspiracy or a game

No, this is a pure, large-scale corruption conspiracy.




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