Re:The global oil market is broken, drowning in crude nobody...
by krapp on Sunday March 29, 2020 @12:37PM
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>As long as someone is willing to pay for it, it will be provided. And even cheaply
This is only true until it isn't. At some point oil will become economically and technologically infeasible and alternatives will win out, because no one wants the million-dollar a barrel oil economy that results when we have to resort to mining Titan for it.
Re:The global oil market is broken, drowning in crude nobody...
by lstodd on Sunday March 29, 2020 @03:24PM
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>At some point oil will become economically and technologically infeasible and alternatives will win out
And it will, but I fail to see how this defeats my statement.
Oil will become obsolete not because its price will rise, but only because the alternatives will finally become cheaper.
Which is not the case as of now.
Yes, it is not physically infinite. But it is effectively.
As long as someone is willing to pay for it, it will be provided. And even cheaply - look, what's 1970's $12/barrel in nowadays dollars? $50? $100?
We are so nowhere near running out of oil, that the whole possibility is best ignored.