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I'm ok with removing 98% of dead dinosaur burning but keeping a few use cases (I wouldn't want to be trapped in a city with the power grid downed from a snowstorm and the city being unable to charge its industrial vehicles)



I agree. The problem is the infrastructure to extract, refine, transport, and distribute oil. Does removing 98% of internal combustion engine vehicles on the road mean removing 98% of gas stations, 98% of oil platforms, 98% of drilling wells, 98% of tank trucks? I'm not sure that two or three gas stations for a city of two million people can survive in business, unless they charge premium prices for the 2% of use cases that will still use them. And it's not just gas stations, it's everything that becomes before, up to the drill that extracts oil from the ground. Can the oil business survive when scaled down to, like, 10% of what it is now? It could be an industry that can't survive below a critical threshold.


> Can the oil business survive when scaled down to, like, 10% of what it is now?

How much gasoline was distributed back in 1930? 10% of today? 2%? Seems they did fine?


Megawatt diesel generators are reasonably sized and could work as a backup for critical infrastructure. There's also things like the Tesla Megapack.




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