• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The problem is consumables. This photo appears to be an oil worker.

    The US burns something on the order of 20 million barrels of oil a day(!)

    https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=33&t=6

    Up from 19 million not too long ago. 100 million in a work week. 5.2 billion a year.

    Someone needs to be out there producing it. Yeah, it would be great if we could wean ourselves off of it, but then we’d still need people producing and managing whatever replaces it.