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Yes. Without oil dependence, the US can let the Middle East sink back into the sand. That's going to happen eventually anyway.
So long as the EU is more or less aligned with the US and the Suez Canal exists, the Middle East as a flashpoint is not going anywhere.
I think the opposite -- that oil is one of the larger factors that endangers global security.
Yes. Without oil dependence, the US can let the Middle East sink back into the sand. That's going to happen eventually anyway.
I think the opposite -- that oil is one of the larger factors that endangers global security.
What happens when the wealth ends for the Middle East? That could go very very badly. It’s going to happen though. Even if climate change and pollution and all other ill effects didn’t exist we’d run out at some point and be in the same place.
I think the opposite -- that oil is one of the larger factors that endangers global security.
Yes. Without oil dependence, the US can let the Middle East sink back into the sand. That's going to happen eventually anyway.
This isn’t news, big oil has been bankrolling lobbyists across the globe to maintain their position via fear mongering about “global security”. There were several wars fought over oil in the past three decades, in fact.
Exactly! People want Green energy resources to be slashed? I'm all for it, once we spend roughly the same amount of time and money we've dedicated to developing oil. Between wars to secure oil, excessive industry tax breaks, etc, I wouldn't doubt the cost to get oil to where it is today is in the tens (if not hundreds) of trillions of dollars.
How long before we diversify our technology to not be ham strung by oil anymore? If it's a security risk to not have it then it's a security risk relying on it so heavily.
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So long as the EU is more or less aligned with the US and the Suez Canal exists, the Middle East as a flashpoint is not going anywhere.
Right now, most container sea traffic is going around Cape Horn rather than risking the Red Sea. China is working on the Belt and Road scheme to move container traffic from China to Europe to rail.
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Yes. Without oil dependence, the US can let the Middle East sink back into the sand. That's going to happen eventually anyway.
Have you seen where materials for batteries come from? Not exactly homegrown by hippies.
Similar arguments also apply to PV cells and wind turbines.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
So long as the EU is more or less aligned with the US and the Suez Canal exists, the Middle East as a flashpoint is not going anywhere.
Right now, most container sea traffic is going around Cape Horn rather than risking the Red Sea. China is working on the Belt and Road scheme to move container traffic from China to Europe to rail.
How long before we diversify our technology to not be ham strung by oil anymore? If it's a security risk to not have it then it's a security risk relying on it so heavily.