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Oil isn't evil. Oil has many uses outside of being burned for energy, and once we transition away from fossil fuels entirely there will still be a place for oil companies.
This isn't what he meant, of course, but hopefully his successor will understand that and make the pivots necessary for the company to survive.
Like plastics? I can only think of fuel and plastic uses for oil.
It's also a component in some industrial products, primarily lubricants and solvents - the latter of which was kinda funny to me because you commonly use solvents to clean off oil
Oh I guess road asphalt is a contributer too. I wonder if those uses eventually contribute to ghgs though degradation over time.
I didn't know about asphalt, so thanks for that.
Also curious about potential ghg there.
Asphalt does off-gas compounds, though not sure how many of those compounds are GHGs:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abb9785
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