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With oil cheap, Arab states cannot balance their books

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Re: With oil cheap, Arab states cannot balance their books

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Mining trucks are easily electrified. Long distance transport is the challenge.

Trains would like to have a word.

True although even in Europe where almost all mainlines are electrified, many freight trains are diesel-electric. That's because often the the plant loading docks etc. aren't electrified.

Re: With oil cheap, Arab states cannot balance their books

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"Likely" based on what? And does an unsafe vaccine (whatever that could be) really qualify as a vaccine? What would make it something a person who travels a lot for business would want to risk?

Likely based on the fact that they're already in mass production, so as long as they don't seem to be immediately killing people they're going to get released even without longterm data. And someone who would travel for business if there were a vaccine at least has a reason to be an early adopter of the vaccine, whereas for someone who never leaves their house anyway it would make more sense just to wait for other pe…

Sure, but (and?) given the way things have been going here in the US, I can't think of a reason not to wait for other people to find out!
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