I didn't read super intelligence into it, I read overdoing and I found that it struck home. I don't know math either, but if I did, I would have done the same calculation.
What are you complaining about? Are you unhappy that Norway takes on many of the issues of going non-reliant of oil, developing systems to handle northern, less benign weather?
You know, from where I stand, a few hundred miles south would be a so much easier place to be, where the sun is plentiful all year long and the winters short and mild...
Not surprising. Norway seems to be driving a lot of development away from excess energy use and oil. Not only in transportation, but also in real estate.
I know little of all projects there, but what I do know makes me want to go there and learn how to do better. When (not if) electric uptake nears 100%, like in Norway, things will start to happen in the market. Petrol stations, refineries etc. will see a very different demand, which will propel much needed change!
I know it's a meme, but is that why? Are the challenges too great to comprehend and therefore it's needed to turn to something that's easier to delude oneself one has a handle on?
Jokes aside, this is one of the few applications of "car use" I'm ok with. It's predominantly non-urban, it's not intended for every day use and is for use on off days getting away. If all commuting was done using collective types of transportation and on electricity, RVs would not be much of a concern.
Until everyone started free camping clotting up the forests, that is...
They are also more desperate. US oil needs the price to stay above 50$/barrel, and the price of WTI, currently at about 72, has been in decline for the last 3 years, trending downwards. These are desperate plees for help from an industry backed into a corner.
In a way, EUs fit-for-55 already lays out a plan for this. By demanding solar panels on all civic buildings in the union, solar production from the Mediterranean countries will provide an electricity boost during these spells.
For the northern countries and eastern countries, the demand for renewable energy sources in the district heating will push prices and incentivies development and other heating sources, like thermal storage, or other storage solutions, like hydrogen. In the short term, even batteries storing nuclear and hydro power from night to day time will make a huge difference.
Blame game stage? Perhaps? My view is that there are few innocents, but the terminology and discourse is very strict in it's perspective.
Same as any other discrimination. There is always one part that has it worse, but it is never a one way street. Perhaps easiest to see with age, where each age group has their resentments against the others. Both are equally generalisations, though. Equally wrong.
Ok, so you link texts that say that women (as well as feminism, obviously) can be just as sexist as men, yet you take affront to my pointing out that the terminology used is sexist?
Which part of it is it that you have such a hard time coming to terms with? That women, by default, is not always the victim, or is it that men is not always the perpetrator? These terms you use to defend the sexism in feminism is getting in the way of what needs to be done.
That's not your fault, you've been ingrained with it. The fact that you need an A-level university course to be able to make the mental gymnastics needed to understand such language without revolting speaks for its own. Or how was it you phrased it "get you started on the path..."
A term inherently sexist to supposedly describe something else. Trying to shift responsibility. Sorry, that is gas lighting. You can have one, but not both. Chose and let your choice speak for which part of the problem you are on.
As if this is somehow down to "patriarchy"? It takes two to tango! Denying the role of women in the shaping of someone's ability to handle and process emotion is really a disservice to anyone who wants equality between sexes. Blaming others is not the way to change.
How interesting. And it seems it has already begun:
According to forecasts by Commodity Insights, refinery utilization rates will drop from around 84% in 2024 to 81% in 2027 as refiners adjust to a weaker margin environment, accelerating closures through 2029-2030.
Close to 1 million b/d could be shuttered over 2029-2030, according to Commodity Insights forecasts, more than double the 473,000 b/d after the financial crisis (2007-2009) and well above the 656,000 b/d closed due to Covid-19 pressures (2019-2021).
Germany and France, meanwhile, are another million electric cars not favouring the oil companies. Just China and Europe and already that is 15% of world demand for gas cars.
Heavy transport and farming will take longer, but the push for electrification in transport is real.
Well, we better be, because if the demand for oil isn't high enough to keep the oil infrastructure up and running, the flip will be sudden, swift and without pardon.
Norway is already at 90+% of new cars EV. How long will the gas stations be able to survive? On the day the last one dies, I want to be driving an electric car.
12mn new EVs? With 92mn cars sold world wide each year, that is a huge number for the oil companies to swallow. It will bring oil prices down, tanking production outside OPEC due to costs of production. That will be a hard economic blow against the oil producing nations.
While they are at it, they are clearing a geoplitical energy dependance on foreign nations. Brilliant move. EU tries to follow with fit for 55, but will it be enough? Being oil dependent, either as buyer or seller, will end up sitting with the short straw unless acted upon now.
I didn't read super intelligence into it, I read overdoing and I found that it struck home. I don't know math either, but if I did, I would have done the same calculation.