Yeah, it’s so easy to say the oil/gas days are over but nobody (and I mean nobody) has found a way to realistically replace it with “renewable” energy in the near term.
Solar, wind, tidal, geothermal etc. all seem great on paper but really only if capital expenditures and future maintenance costs are suppressed. Nuclear is probably a better answer, but it has the whole radioactivity stigma attached to it.
And the real elephant in the room is the simple fact that our power grid is in no way capable of handling the charging requirements of 2.7 electric vehicles per household plus heating/cooling every building.
As much as some people would simply wish it otherwise, without some technological breakthrough we’ll be using oil and gas at a steady rate for the foreseeable future.
Solar, wind, tidal, geothermal etc. all seem great on paper but really only if capital expenditures and future maintenance costs are suppressed. Nuclear is probably a better answer, but it has the whole radioactivity stigma attached to it.
And the real elephant in the room is the simple fact that our power grid is in no way capable of handling the charging requirements of 2.7 electric vehicles per household plus heating/cooling every building.
As much as some people would simply wish it otherwise, without some technological breakthrough we’ll be using oil and gas at a steady rate for the foreseeable future.