• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    we’re the world’s largest oil producer; our gas will always be cheaper.

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      2 months ago

      You might be the largest oil producer, but most of that production is expensive shale oil with ever lower quality wells and increasing depletion rates.

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        2 months ago

        It’s all about quarter earnings; long term effects like climate change have nothing to do w it

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          2 months ago

          No, it’s all about energy return on energy invested.
          If that goes negative, oil stops being a energy source and becomes exclusively a regular raw material.