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Further more, how would you get your Apple (and non-apple) products without oil? Like or dislike, we have to accept that the current energy paradigm has created much of the wealth in the world today.

Though we look at oil as a bad product, so was the newton, but it served a purpose. The current product of oil companies might not end up being the last. I suspect in 100 years we may see an ExxonMobile providing clean efficient energy from an infrastructure they were able to develop because of the vast trillions they made in the days of oil.

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