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Everyone knows refineries produce gas for their cars. Less people know refineries produce all the plastics too. Even fewer people realize an alarming amount of the industrial fertilizers we use to keep billions of people from starving to death comes directly from oil.

We. Are. Stuck.

Until we figure out how to repair all the scorched dirt we killed through overfarming that can no longer grow plants without heaps of fertilizer. Until we find some other process to produce massive amounts of plant food. Until we find some other way to fill billions of mouths we really CANT stop drilling or people die.

I'm all for eat the rich but they're more like an delicacy, not a staple diet for half the world. We need solutions along with all the 'tear it down.' You know who wouldn't starve if we stopped drilling immediately? The rich

The sad thing is that the Oil Industry is well positioned to solve this problem. They have a workforce that's skilled at building offshore structures that could building off shore wind farms. They have people skilled at drilling who could be developing geothermal energy. They have chemical engineers, pipelines, and tankers which could be used to create and distribute hydrogen based fuels.

And they most certainly have the financial resources needed to make that transition.

They all like to market themselves as being in the "energy industry" instead of the oil industry. They could actually do that. Become green energy companies.

Only problem is that this would cost them their quarterly profits. Long term they'd be able to dominate the green energy market instead of being replaced by it.

But they simply aren't thinking long term at all. It's really insane when you think about it.