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A comment on Peak Oil Perspective.

Re:Peak Oil Perspective by olalonde on Monday September 09, 2013 @07:53PM (#6357114)
Sorry for the naive question but what is oil used for? Isn't most of it used for transportation? If so, isn't the problem a bit overblown given that we have electric vehicles?
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Re:Peak Oil Perspective by ohazi on Monday September 09, 2013 @08:14PM (#6357190)
Transportation of physical goods everywhere on the planet, not just transportation of your butt between work and home every weekday.

We have electric cars. We don't have (useful) electric trucks, or ships, or passenger or cargo aircraft.

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Re:Peak Oil Perspective by maxerickson on Monday September 09, 2013 @08:06PM (#6357161)
A lot of it goes into plastics and also tractors.
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