• silence7@slrpnk.netM
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    9 months ago

    Usage has increased no matter the price for decades. Using pure price mechanisms to globally cut fossil fuel use means splitting consumer prices from wellhead prices.

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      9 months ago

      Useage has increased, but for your first comment to make any sense the war’s effect on prices must have caused an increase over and beyond a world in which it didn’t happen.

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        9 months ago

        I don’t think the war has any impact on fossil fuel consumption. It changes who turns a profit and where we are in the industry boom and bust cycle, with modest consumption increases happening whether or not it happens