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Re:Explosion at US natural gas plant raises risk of shortage... by jkIHGs on Saturday June 11, 2022 @02:12PM (#31706683)
You did not address the reasoning, which is about the fact that the last country on earth with oil reserves will have a strategic advantage.

Russia can always trade with China to have enough money for weapons. Anyway, even with all the Europe trade in the past decades they can barely advance 50 km in Ukraine.

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Re:Explosion at US natural gas plant raises risk of shortage... by hdjjhhvvhga on Sunday June 12, 2022 @06:59AM (#31713563)
> You did not address the reasoning, which is about the fact that the last country on earth with oil reserves will have a strategic advantage.

I agree this is a problem, and hopefully its scale will be much lower in a few decades as we are moving away from fossil fuels. But even if we were consuming them rapidly as we are doing now, we are talking ca. 50 years for oil and natural gas. Whereas the danger from Russia is right now.

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