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This sounds like an opportunity for someone to kickstart a whole new post-petroleum industry.

How? Use the sun, wind, tide, nuclear, geothermal, space-solar, anything, to produce electricity, in order to crack hydrogen from water, and jumpstart the hydrogen economy. And will also need to begin mass production of fuel cells to get it cheaper.

This proves that the world does not need oil, if an alternative energy source can be harvested.

And along the way, it can possibly topple the biggest superpower on the planet. As well as effectively neutering the major countries with massive petroleum reserves.

I can only think of one player that can achieve such a monumental task. And even then, I doubt that they are that bold.




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