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by cm2012 988 days ago
Also oil is insanely cleaner to burn than coal or wood
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I’m sure it is. But it starts to get murkier when I consider that the wood came from a tree 200m up the road, but the oil is from the Middle East, processed somewhere and delivered to me 10,000km away.
The United States is now the largest producer of oil in the world, if that helps.
I’m in New Zealand, we should be using 100% renewables as we are just too far away.