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caraher

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1. This is where "unconventional" oil might kick in

Reply to GliderGuider (Original post)

Fri Mar 7, 2014, 09:57 PM

Mar 2014

We have a lot more oil than the climate can stand, by any reasonable measure, if we're willing to pay for it by going to things like tar sands. So conventional wells running dry won't, by itself, prove decisive in decarbonizing the parts of the energy economy that currently rely on cheap(ish) oil.

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