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You mean like right now we just need enough oil fields to hollow out a quarter of Spain? Here's the numbers:

Size of Ghawar oil field: 280 km × 30 km

Fraction of global oil produced by Ghawar: 6.25%

Size of Spain: ca. 500,000 km^2

Do the math yourself.

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