RE: Oil is dead22 Apr 2020 03:58
Oil clearly isnt dead. The current over supply glut is the product of the coronavirus pandemic and the Saudi-Russia price war coinciding. Right when the world oil demand slumped due to the pandemic the Russians and Saudis started upping their output.
Are you telling me that all the fuel required for aviation, shipping, haulage, commuting, leisure driving, manufacturing petrochemicals, plastics, pharma products, road tar...i could go on but you get the point...aren't going to be needed?
Even when the world gets to a stage where renewable sources of energy, EV's are the primary modes of transport what do you think all the products in your every day life are going to be constructed of, wind and electrons?
In the future oil demand will obviously be less than it is at present, its a fact that over the next number of decades a greater reliance on renewable will become the norm. However a world in which oil doesn't exist means a world in which nearly all of the clothes you're wearing, and all of the material products you own no longer exist. Unless we start constructing everything out of wood and metal, oil will always be required.