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Rough math here, but the US consumes enough oil equivalent to a 45 by 45 mile square, 50 feet deep, every single day. Is that even remotely close, dimenstionslly? I saw ~900 Million gallons as reference and just armchaired it from there.

Anyway, have we all not been behind enough diesel trucks and 18-wheelers to realize that shit can't be good for anything living? No? Cars with cats removed, lawnmowers and other yard implements are awful. Visit SeaTac and experience that delicious jet wash. Yummo. 🙄

I don't have any game in this fight, but can we all just get fucking real for 2 seconds? It's nasty stuff, and I legitimately thought we'd be well past this whole burning carbon for fuel thing by now, but silly me. Can we all agree that something isn't right and go from there?

We can all stop lying to ourselves on this hot topic. Shit ain't normal.

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Zach⚡️ 1y ago

I’m going to take every single premise you just laid out as 100% true at face value.

Even with that framework, is oil a net benefit or a net loss to your life and to human flourishing in general? What would your life without hydrocarbon energy sources look like?

JT 1y ago

Awful and terrible. I know this and cannot be resplendent. I would've died young, I'm sure.

It's a total benefit to the growth and production of society, but at what real cost? Do we only get a couple hundred years then *disappeared*?

Zach⚡️ 1y ago

We definitely need to bridge the gap and transition. We already have the technology to transition a lot of our energy (over a period of decades to centuries) but we don’t have a legitimate economic incentive to do so yet.

That’s the biggest problem with fiat and top down economic dictates. It makes it way harder to know the truth, which price would normally communicate.

Hydrocarbons have been getting cheaper over the past half century, even with an expanding population. Once that changes, our infrastructure will start to change too. But if we are boxed in by central planning and waste trillions building broken and unreliable infrastructure, that will be our real doom.

JT 1y ago

I love this entire post, but ultimately what I'm after is congruence in the opinion. This isn't normal, and hasn't been for a bit too long to continue sweeping it under the rug.

I would like my recently-born niece to always have the ability to breathe outside air. Why is that seemingly asking too much of us, as a whole? Just why.

JT 1y ago

Appreciate the exercise, I'm totally spit-balling. 👍