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Saudi Aramco CEO says energy transition is failing, world should abandon 'fantasy' of phasing out oil (www.cnbc.com)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Saudi Arabia has one of the most aggressive targets for renewable energy. And they are actually investing and building the infrastructure instead of just talking about it. Just like with their other plans to diversify the economy, they know fossil fuels are unsustainable and that if they won't be able to support their social welfare benefits, peaceful existence will end.

It's the same case as with Texas in US. They shout that renewable energy is bad to appease their fossil fuel donors, while they have the biggest capacity of renewable energy of the whole US.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Is he worried that there are no battery operated chainsaws ?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

If it was failing you'd let it fail. If you were worried that it wasn't you'd yell from the hills.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Why are we listening to what this corporate clown has to say.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Is that way Saudi Arabia is building giant solar plants?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2022/06/02/worlds-biggest-solar-plant-to-decarbonize-aluminum-industry-in-saudi-arabia/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Corporate racketeering mob boss says attempts to stop him from murdering have failed, and we should embrace his murderous future.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

This makes me want to phase it out faster.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

and harder

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

better

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

stronger

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

And ... better?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just another quick thought, but if the leaders of Western nations were really truly serious about pollution, you would think they do more to address nations like Kuwait that bulldoze their trash into the sea or China That is a notorious poller.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

You gotta convince the defense contractors there’s money in the invasion for them. Unfortunately, U.S. defense contractor waste and inefficiently rivals most nations.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Imo I think electric cars are very suitable for mile to hot weather climates in big cities and their suburbs, but in my own experience, electric car fail in extremely cold weather And also also, it’s hard to find charging stations in rural areas. Ideally, we would get away from gasoline powered cars, but at this time with the current power grid in most countries, it doesn’t seem like a viable solution

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I’m one year in being an EV owner - in europe, not in a metropole but in belgium so there’s still some density of population.

Relative cold had anecdotal impact. Maybe when going under -10 it’s becoming an issue but so far no impact.

Charging infrastructure is getting there - still no rapid chargers in wallonia but I’ve learned that I don’t need them either. I’m able to live my life by charging once a week or so in my home charger. Admittedly I work from home 3 days a week and I use trains 2 days to get to work.

For holidays we like going to France where they seem to have an abundance of fast chargers and it’s been a breeze beside an increased frequency of stops to charge for 15 minutes.

So yeah it’s all anecdotal but in European settings it’s perfectly fine.