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"rapidly depleting" fossil fuels narrative has fallen off a cliff in recent years. Oil became so abundant this year that at one point the price went negative.


> Oil became so abundant this year

No, the rate of oil being yanked out of the ground has become so abundant this year--especially when contrast with the rate of use since a staggering amount of us are staying at home--that the price went negative. (And it only went negative because futures traders did not want to actually take delivery of the physical oil they'd "purchased" with their options contracts.)

The quantity of fossil fuels available to us on this planet is decreasing while our use of them continues to wreck the atmosphere we rely upon. A large component of this is personal transportation (alongside industry).


The proven natural reserves is higher than at any point in history. Massive amounts of oil exist which accumulated for millions of years and we are nowhere near depleting those reserves. And no, contrary to the fear over mild warming, CO2 has many fantastic benefits for plant life on this planet. In recent years, this has caused the total plant leaf surface area to increase by 25-50%:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...

Photosynthesis quite literally depends on CO2. Thank goodness we're restoring the CO2 back to the atmosphere from which it originally came from. It was buried under ground as an accident of history. Plants evolved to thrive at CO2 levels more than 3-4x what present-day levels are.


3-4x the current level of CO2 is far far past runaway environmental catastrophe. A plant can have all the CO2 it wants but it would have to attempt to eke out an existence in a far drier climate that is multiple degrees hotter.


Plants are not limited by a lack of CO2, but generally by water, temperatures, and soil nutrients such as nitrogen.


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I mean, he's not entirely wrong. The rising CO2 levels will be absolutely fantastic for plants. Just not so much for us.


Not really. They can only absorb so much CO2, however much they might be steeped in.


And who cares about pollution. Or 40,000 dead every year? Or the trillions spent on roads to support these behemoths.


Road damage scales roughly with the 4th power of axle load. That means that F-150s harm roads more than Honda Fits, but both are a tiny rounding error compared to heavy trucking that's moving goods to markets.




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