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> I wish people would stop acting like the world is fine aside from gasoline.

The reason why is there an (appropriate in my opinion) focus on gasoline and other crude-oil products is that other commodities and services relies on this commodity. We're not yet in a state where we can use other resources as substitute for it (either because green energy is not that scaled-up or because crude oil directly contains what is needed - for example fertilizers and plastics).



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