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posted ago by Serp-Patriot ago by Serp-Patriot +23 / -0

So let's keep mining and buying lithium from countries that hate us so we can make throw away cars just like our throw away cellphones.

My dads natural gas work truck ran for almost 20 years and cost him 10 bucks to fill up.

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/making-methane-mars#:~:text=It%20utilized%20a%20solar%20infrastructure,produce%20breathable%20oxygen%20from%20water

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Fignugent 4 points ago +4 / -0

doesn't make sense to pay 5-10 times the power to convert the energy to that form

splitting water into hydrogen is super easy. we don't do it because we don't NEED to

we already have gasoline

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wiombims 3 points ago +3 / -0

It's also a whole other category when you're talking about exploration and custom projects vs industry and mass production.

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Fignugent 0 points ago +1 / -1

perhaps you don't remember when oil futures went NEGATIVE and people who held them couldn't even pay people to take them off their hands

the price of oil is entirely fictional

the people who dig it out of the ground can assign any price to it they want

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Fignugent 1 point ago +1 / -0

i should have realized i was speaking to someone illiterate in economics. my bad